Lloyd's of London to pay for 'shameful' Atlantic slave trade role

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3. It continued in the 20th century.

When Lenin shipped political prisoners to eastern Siberia to work in the GULags, it was to Lloyd's of London he turned to.

Socialism may have a renewed patina of acceptability, but early on Lenin enslaved people and sent them to labor camps with a 50% or more death rate per year, and expanding the camps to a capacity that the tsars hadn't considered. Moreover, he insisted on having that valuable human capital insured against loss during transport.