07/18/2025
85. Name some of the marks that were put upon the Moors of Northwest, by the European nations in 1774. Negro, Black, Colored, and Ethiopia.
-Koran Questions for Moorish Americans
Honors to Aseer the Duke of Tiers for this find.
"Slave life insurance policies were offered by many corporations still in operation today, including Aetna, New York Life, and AIG (formerly U.S. Life). Aetna acknowledged that it had issued slave life insurance policies as early as 1956. Since then, it has consistently expressed public regret about its historic role in the slave life insurance industry, most notably in 2000, when a descendant demanded an apology and reparations. Aetna has thus followed the same course as major American banks Wachovia and J.P. Morgan Chase in eschewing its involvement, but it also claims that it held very few slave life insurance policies.
Historians Michael Ralph and William Rankin examined antebellum slave insurance policy records in corporate archives, and identified five Aetna branches which were especially active in Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Kentucky. One of the hubs was Louisville, Kentucky, just 78 miles northwest of Lexington, where this policy to William H. Brand was authorized by a local Aetna branch agent named Thomas B. Baxter."
https://www.universityarchives.com/auction-lot/aetna-insurance-co.-slave-insurance-policy-for-21_62A4F3F834
https://africanamericancollection.com/portfolio/original-aetna-slave-insurance-policy-1859/aetna-slave-insurance-policy-270kb/
