Accounting for Slavery
My first book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management (Harvard UP, 2018), seeks to integrate the history of slavery into the history of American business practices. The book explores the development of business practices on slave plantations and uses this history to understand the relationship between violence and innovation, themes that led to the book's inclusion in the New York Time's 1619 Project. Accounting for Slavery won the Simpkins Award of the Southern Historical Association as well as the first book prize of the Economic History Society. It was featured as a "Five Books" best book in economics for 2018 and honored by the San Francisco Public Library Laureates. You can read more about the project or buy the book at HUP's book page and Amazon.
Recent coverage
- Listen to me discuss the book on Marketplace with Kimberly Adams, and read about "The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery"
- “How Big Data Can Lead to Moral Blunders,” Washington Post
- Listen to an interview on “Organizational Models + White Supremacy” on Living Corporate
- Roundtable on “The Business of Brutality” at the Bay area Book Festival/CSPAN
- “Why Management History Needs to Reckon with Slavery” at Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast
- Listen to me talk about slavery and business history with a Business Associations Course at MaGill University
- “Reparations for African Americans,” BBC Business Daily