Major American and British Financial Institutions with Historical Ties to Plantation Credit and Slave Collateral

American institutions

  • JPMorgan Chase (predecessor banks)
  • Wells Fargo (Wachovia and other predecessors)
  • Bank of America (predecessor banks)
  • U.S. Bancorp (predecessor banks)
  • PNC Bank (predecessor banks)
  • Citigroup (early New York merchant banking predecessors)
  • New York Life Insurance Company
  • Aetna Insurance
  • Hartford Fire Insurance Company
  • Brown Brothers Harriman (merchant banking predecessors)
  • Bank of Louisiana
  • Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana
  • Canal Bank of New Orleans
  • Bank of Charleston
  • Georgia Railroad and Banking Company

British institutions

  • Barclays
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • NatWest Group (Royal Bank of Scotland)
  • HSBC (via Midland Bank predecessors)
  • Bank of England
  • Standard Chartered (colonial-era predecessors)
  • Arbuthnot Latham
  • Baring Brothers
  • Coutts
  • Schroders

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