London's finance district, steeped in slavery, confronts its past - NewsBreak
By Lawce in Business
Updated 3 years ago
LONDON (Reuters) - 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...