London's finance district, steeped in slavery, confronts its past
'We can't ignore the history. We can explain it, we can educate.'
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'We can't ignore the history. We can explain it, we can educate.'
British ships ferried over 3 million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s of London insured many of those vessels, the people chained below deck sometimes categorized as “perishable goods”, alongside cattle, by the market’s underwriters. Lloyd’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade is not included in the market’s permanent exhibition at its modernistic ...
British ships ferried over 3 million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd's of London insured many of those vessels, the people chained below deck sometimes categorized as “perishable goods”, alongside cattle, by the market's underwriters.
British ships ferried over 3 million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd's of London insured many of those vessels, the people chained below deck sometimes categorized as... | October 6, 2021
Lloyd's and the Bank of England have each hired a historian to delve into their roles in the slave trade and are planning on publicizing the results in the next year.