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Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

10 Aug 2020

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Margaret Kimberley · Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery

Insuring one’s slave “is actually a better financial decision than insuring other kinds of property,” said Dr Michael Ralph, director of Africana Studies at New York University, Human beings “are the only kind of property that accrues value over time based on skills learned in life,” said Ralph, who wrote an article on the insurance industry’s role in US slavery.

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