Slave Insurance
2016-04-03 01:36:26.874449+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Radical Cartography: Slave Insurance
What this map shows is that the slaves who were insured — or at least those for whom historical records still exist — were disproportionately skilled and urban, and the geography of slave insurance is quite different from the geography of slavery in general. Insured slaves were usually rented to others; in many ways they were similar to skilled wage-earners, except that their labor and their earnings were controlled by their owner.
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