Event Dime
Fellow Talk | The Insurance-Industrial Complex of Slavery
- When:
- September 2, 2026 · 12:00 PM
- Where:
- Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA
- Source:
- 6AM City Richmond – Events
The Library of Virginia will present “The Insurance-Industrial Complex of Slavery,” a virtual talk by Virginia Humanities HBCU Fellow Michelle Oliver, a financial genealogist, preservation strategist and public history researcher. Slavery in the United States has most often been interpreted as a system of coerced labor and racial domination, but while these dimensions are essential, they do not fully account for the financial structures that sustained and normalized human commodification. Oliver