![]() ![]() Many enslavers were keenly interested in pursuing commercial education. Prominent on the list were “the sons of American planters”-the children of enslavers in North America and the Caribbean (Postlethwayt 1750). Though it is unclear whether his vision materialized, Postlethwayt’s plans did describe the “gentlemen” who he expected to attend. ![]() Merchants and bookkeeping instructors often taught short commercial courses, but Postlethwayt’s proposal stands out because it sounds strikingly like the modern MBA. Postlethwayt, a British pamphleteer, was planning to establish a “Merchant’s Public Counting House” where young men would be “bred to Trade” with “great advantage.” For a period of two years, students would study an array of topics ranging from arbitrage to rates of exchange, the stock market, foreign languages, and written and spoken business communication. In 1750-over a century before most modern business schools were founded-Malachy Postlethwayt described a school of strikingly modern design. ![]()
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