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Liverpool and the Slave Trade (Paperback)
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Liverpool and the Slave Trade (Paperback)
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During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in
Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million
and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved
labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships
carried a larger number of Africans than those of any other
European port. White colonial owners used the enslaved Africans to
produce sugar and other valuable tropical goods which were consumed
at home in Britain. Liverpool and the slave trade is the first
comprehensive account of the city's participation in the trade. It
tells the story of the merchants and ships' captains who organised
the trade and shows how they bought and sold Africans, how they
treated the enslaved during the Atlantic voyage and how they and
the wider community benefitted from the slave trade. It concludes
with the efforts to end the trade and the legacy it has left in
Liverpool and beyond. Drawing on the most recent research as well
as extensive use of contemporary documents and personal testimonies
and experiences to explore this history, Liverpool and the slave
trade highlights an important part of the city's history which has
for too long been rejected, forgotten or ignored.
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