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Consumers: Slavery Era Insurance Registry
The California Department of Insurance provides a registry of slave insurance that includes slaves owned in Kentucky. The registry has the insurance company names, policy numbers, and the names of the slaves and slaveholders. The information is available as web pages, and also available in .pdf.
Subjects:
Slave Injury and Death Reimbursement & Insurance
Geographic Region: Kentucky / California
Slave Execution Reimbursement
Start Year
: 1798
The Kentucky Slave Code of 1798 allowed for the slaveholder to be paid the value of any slave who was executed. The process for payment was as follows: Once the slave was taken into custody by the sheriff, he or she was to be assessed a value. The auditor of public accounts was authorized and required to issue a warrant to the treasury for the amount in favor of the slave owner. The owner was to produce the certificate of the clerk of the court that said the slave was condemned, along with the sheriff's certificate that said the slave was executed or perished before execution; then the treasurer was required to pay the owner the assessed value of the slave. For more see A Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky, vol. 2, Chapter CLXXIV - Slaves, Sec. 24, pp. 1154-1155.
Subjects:
Executions,
Slave Injury and Death Reimbursement & Insurance
Geographic Region: Kentucky
Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Insurance, provides a register of slave insurance that includes the names of the slaves, the slave holder, and the insurance policy number. The register, in .pdf, includes slaves owned in Kentucky.
Subjects:
Slave Injury and Death Reimbursement & Insurance
Geographic Region: Kentucky / Illinois