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Article

2 May 2002

Author:
Sarah Lubman, San Jose Mercury News

State [California] releases names of slaves who were insured

The names of hundreds of slaves whose lives were insured before 1865 were released by the state Wednesday, plunging California into the middle of a growing national movement to sue companies for slavery reparations. The information, mandated by a state law passed in 2000, came largely from three insurance companies that do business in California: New York Life, AIG and Aetna