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Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity
Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies By Dr. Stacey Patton On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion rocked the Bright Hope Coal Pits in …