Lloyd’s reparations and insuring the “Middle Passage”

Helene Peter-Davies, a lawyer in the London marine market, takes a look at the marine insurance involvement in the slave trade

Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020, the world’s understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement and aims has increased exponentially, with waves of protests being seen in major cities throughout the globe. Whichever way you view the movement, the origins of the discrimination still faced by the black community is inextricably linked to the slave trade, which involved more than 400 years of oppressive behaviour towards an entire ethnic community.