Insurer · est. 1853

Aetna

Aetna apologized in 2000 for selling policies that paid slaveholders when the people they enslaved died.

In the 1850s Aetna issued life-insurance policies on the lives of enslaved people, reimbursing enslavers for their "loss." The company publicly acknowledged and apologized for these policies in 2000.

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Aetna acknowledges issuing slave policies

Democracy Now!

Aetna's 2000 apology for insuring enslaved people.

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Aetna insured enslavers against the deaths of the people they enslaved.