Insurer · est. 1688

Lloyd's of London

Lloyd's was the global center for insuring Britain's slave-trading ships; it apologized in 2020.

For more than a century the Lloyd's market underwrote the ships and "cargoes" of the transatlantic slave trade. Lloyd's now acknowledges it "benefitted significantly from the trafficking of enslaved people" and issued a formal apology in 2020.

Documentation

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Lloyd's of London and the transatlantic slave trade

Lloyd's of London

Lloyd's acknowledgment of insuring the slave trade.

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Lloyd's underwrote the ships of the slave trade.