Black People : Black Slavery: AFTER The Civil War_ including Vagrancy Laws

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Vagrancy _ As Brother OldSoul discussed Today. In part 2

A vagrant or a vagabond is a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Other synonyms include tramp, hobo, and drifter. A vagrant is a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging; vagrancy is the condition of such persons.

 

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http://www.ask.com/wiki/Lehman_Brothers

Lehman Brothers

Go thru their list of modern day companies from American Express, Macy's, Sears and many others.

This Year!! Should we hold all of the companies their acquisition partners and friends in business accountable? Start boycotting them all at the same time. Going down a list like a fire sale.

It could be done in a day! Change would happen within weeks and funds for Education and Job development will happen. Is that Taking Reparations? Is it Demanding and taking only what is Long Overdue?

During the 1850s, cotton was one of the most important crops in the United States. Capitalizing on cotton's high market value, the three brothers began to routinely accept raw cotton from customers as payment for merchandise, eventually beginning a second business trading in cotton. Within a few years this business grew to become the most significant part of their operation.

By 1858, the center of cotton trading had shifted from the South to New York City, where factors and commission houses were based. Lehman opened its first branch office in New York City's Manhattan borough at 119 Liberty Street,[13] and 32-year-old Emanuel relocated there to run the office.[10] In 1862, facing difficulties as a result of the Civil War, the firm teamed up with a cotton merchant named John Durr to form Lehman, Durr & Co.[14][15] Following the war the company helped finance Alabama's reconstruction. The firm's headquarters were eventually moved to New York City, where it helped found the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870;