![]() In the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History, Claudio Saunt shows that investment bankers from the northeastern states and abroad were essential to the process of moving eighty thousand people across the Mississippi River. Image courtesy Lewis Perry Curtis Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library The certificate made the investment more palatable to northern investors by picturing a leaping stag and a stack of cotton bales rather than dispossessed Native Americans and enslaved laborers. ![]() ![]() Certificate for twelve shares in the New York and Mississippi Land Company, one of several joint-stock companies established by Wall Street financiers to speculate in native lands. ![]()
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