Juneteenth is a good day to remind people that slavery was a founding principle of the US economy. WALL STREET started as a slave market, FANEUIL HALL hosted a slave market & is named for a slave trader.
All of the first 12 US Presidents owned slaves except John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
The first commodities traded on Wall Street were slaves. A very short history of the Wall Street Slave Market.
The name "Wall St" derives from either Dutch "Walloon" settlers or the literal 9 ft defensive wall along the East River.
Dutch settlers labeled it "de Waalstraat".
Slavery seems like the original sin of United States. Not *everything* bad about America is directly due to slavery, but its impact taints and tarnishes almost everything.
