Slavery & Insurance Examining slave insurance in a world 150 years removed

By Michael Sean Quinn | May 15, 2000

  • March 30, 2007 at 10:41 am
    Donna says:
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    At the very least this country and insurance companies can do is provide free education to all african american non-immigrant children for as long as they desire to go. My children dont need and cant eat their fake apologies!

  • February 8, 2008 at 11:55 am
    Curt Douglas says:
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    It is no doubt that white America and the influx of illegal aliens are still enjoying the royalties of free labor by slaves and their decendants to this very day. It other words this country was build on free labor and now illegals cross the borders daily to escape their poverty to get all the benefits that America has to offer and as a consequence native born citizens and people of color ex slave decendants suffer. Because the government tells them that there are little to no resources to help them with their problems of homelessness, no health care and the lack of educational resources to get better and more productive jobs with a worthwhile future for them and their children. However, this is stressed even further when we are having to assist others that have not paid into the system in any way at all. This is something that should be brought to the attention of our politicians, who say that they are looking out for this country and its citizens, especially those that have paid the price and more.

  • May 23, 2010 at 2:38 am
    Den Vesey says:
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    Genius, this was not “life” insurance. It was property insurance. On what was deemed “inventory”, not people. though your naiveté is charming, its premised on ignorance.

    Take a look at the Zong Massacre case, where slaves were thrown overboard so that the shipowners could monetize their deaths via what you call “life” insurance. The Solicitor General, John Lee, declared that a master could drown slaves without “a surmise of impropriety”. He went on to say “What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well-serving honourable men of murder. To question the judgement of an experienced well-travelled captain held in the highest regard is one of folly, especially when talking of slaves. The case is the same as if wood had been thrown overboard.”

    Still think this amounts to “key-man” insurance?

  • January 24, 2012 at 5:46 pm
    Aborigine American says:
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    These insurance companies that existed during the Slavery era, should have been outlawed all because they conspired with slave holders to commit murder at their will, especially when they ran out of money, therefore it was so easy to murder a member of the Human-family for financial gain. These insurance companies are the epic-shame of the nation; treating human-life as if it were manufactured in a auto plant. This is considered sub-human behavior. Indulging in the destruction of millions of Souls.



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