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Jan 2024
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Le Royaume-Uni face à son passé : plongé...

LE MONDE
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En juin 2020, dans le sillage du mouvement « Black Lives Matter », une partie de la population du Royaume-Uni pousse pour déterrer le passé colonial et esclavagiste du pays. Plusieurs entreprises présentent alors leurs excuses pour leur participation à la traite d’être humains. Parmi elles, le Lloyd’s, marché d’assurance créé au XVIIe siècle, en plein essor du commerce triangulaire.

Quelques mois plus tard, l’institution financière britannique décide d’aller plus loin et entame une introspection en ouvrant ses archives et en confiant à des historiens la tâche de les éplucher.

Les résultats, publiés en novembre 2023, alimentent une prise de conscience du poids de l’esclavage dans le développement économique et financier du Lloyd’s et de tout le Royaume aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Dans cet épisode du podcast « L’Heure du Monde », Eric Albert, correspondant du Monde à Londres, plonge dans ces sombres archives.

Un épisode d’Adélaïde Tenaglia. Présentation et rédaction en chef : Margaux Lannuzel. Réalisation : Thomas Zeng. Musiques et habillages : Amandine Robillard.

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