Damn!!! My Uncle was a big wig at Lloyds!
I could see him writing a policy like that.
White folks will do anything for money
Economics and the Accumulation of Wealth
"The transatlantic slave trade emerged as one of the most lucrative transnational enterprises ever and fuelled the development of the new economic system of capitalism in Europe.
"Moreover, some of the wealth and property accumulated then, and many of the institutions created in that era, still exist today..."
"For example, among the investors of the South Sea Company – a company that, in 1713, bought from the British government the asiento contract to supply 5,000 captives to Spanish colonies – were Thomas Guy (founder of Guy's Hospital),
Sir Isaac Newton, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
"The first governor of the company was the chancellor of the Exchequer, while the monarch, Queen Anne, received over 22% of the company's stock. (In 1720, the company failed spectacularly in what became known as the 'South Sea Bubble'"