Accounting in service to racism: Monetizing slave property in the antebellum South

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 376-399

  Fleischman, Richard K ^a   Tyson, Thomas N ^b  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting; Racism; Slave property

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842812565     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1045-2354(03)00102-3     Document Type: Article

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