An advertisement from the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 28, 1863:
Slave Insurance
Lynchburg Hose and
fire Insurance Company.
Slaves insured by this company for one or a term of years on favorable terms
Wm A Charters,
Increase Agent.
Office 11th st, bet Main and Bank.
There is evidence that life insurance on slaves was mostly an urban phenomenon in the antebellum South. The Lynchburg company is mentioned in Sharon Ann Murphy’s
Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
big potential market (slave density, 1860 census)
