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Insurer · est. 1845

New York Life

Its predecessor insured about 520 enslaved people in the 1840s, paying death benefits to enslavers.

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New York Life's own "Acknowledging our past" disclosure states that its predecessor, the Nautilus Insurance Company, sold policies on the lives of enslaved people between 1846 and 1848 and paid claims to those who enslaved them.

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    Its predecessor insured the lives of enslaved people for their enslavers.