London firms bankrolled slavery. Now they’re confronting their dark pasts
Banks and insurance companies debate how best to deal with their racist origins in the wake of Black Lives Matter
06 October 2021 - 18:43
British ships ferried more than 3-million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s of London insured many of those vessels, the people chained below deck sometimes categorised as “perishable goods”, alongside cattle, by the market’s underwriters...
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