Lloyd’s Issues Apology for its Role in the Slave Trade

Lloyd’s of London, the historic City insurance market, has apologised for its involvement in the slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Lloyd’s, which was founded in 1686, supported the trans-Atlantic slave trade by insuring its ships.

“This was an appalling and shameful period of British history, as well as our own.”

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