slave insurance
Incubating tech in the shadow of the civil rights movement
11:54 am PST • March 3, 2018
When Birmingham led the charge in the civil rights movement in the sixties, the city inadvertently created big shoes for itself to later fill. Just how Birmingham was the birthplace of…
Visualizing the slave insurance industry
1:07 pm PST • February 22, 2018
Fearful of not getting their money’s worth from their slaves, owners would sometimes take out insurance policies on them. In the 1800s, for example, some slave-owners who rented out their…
