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Lloyd’s issues apology for its role in the slave trade

The 330 year-old market said there were aspects of its history it is “not proud of”

Thursday 18 June 2020 at 13:24

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.