Flutterby™! : Slave Insurance

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.