Lloyds of London archives show how important the City was to the transatlantic slave trade
Lloyds of London archives show how important the City was to the transatlantic slave trade: The Slave Ship, by William Turner (1840): slavers throw overboard the dead and dying as a typhoon approaches. Wikimedia In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolised the brutal economics of slavery. Two years …