Their names, their economic value, and a note on their health. This is how enslaved people were recorded in a ledger when they were bought or sold. A ledger from a sugar and coffee plantation in Suriname. A ledger that was kept for one of the plantation owners: Jan Hodshon.
Thomas M Hoenig: Rebalancing toward sustainable growth Speech by Mr Thomas M Hoenig, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, before the Rotary Club of Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Des Moines, Iowa, 30 June 2011.