Wall Street’s Dark Prince – New York City Should Permanently Honor Jeremiah Hamilton in Its History

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A historic black-and-white photo of Jeremiah Hamilton with a Wall Street street sign in the background, representing "Wall Street’s Dark Prince"

Earlier this year, New York City made a laudable effort to recognize Wall Street’s role in slavery and the slave trade by installing a 16-by-24-inch memorial sign. Yet given the current climate of race relations in the United States, the city might be asked to do more—specifically, to acknowledge that African Americans were not merely … Read more