In response to evidence generated by Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann regarding insurance company practices, the State of California requires insurers to search their archives for slave policies.

June 29, 2018 No Comments

Reference: Congressmember John Conyers Jr. with Jo Ann Nichols Watson, Reparations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,in Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations(ed. Raymond A. Winbush, PhD 2003) at p. 19.

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In response to evidence generated by Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann regarding insurance company practices, the State of California requires insurers to search their archives for slave policies.

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