One was the Society's emblem. The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the Brookes. Below the plan was a detailed description of the Brookes and information about the ship's trading ...
By 1800, 78,000 people lived and worked in Liverpool. Thousands found work because of the slave trade: Ships were needed which had to be built and equipped. Carpenters, rope makers, dock workers ...
no marker or monument to honor the people brutalized and stolen during the slave trade. The city's museum says that "between 1700 and 1807, ships from Liverpool carried about 1.5 million Africans ...
4 Gomer Williams, the man, remains something of a mystery. By the late nineteenth century, when he compiled this volume, slave trading from the port of Liverpool had been over for the better part of a ...
She said: “By ‘steaming’ its ships outside the British empire where slavery hadn’t been abolished ... Packet Company (RMSPC), founded in Liverpool, was one of the most influential British ...
He visited slave trading ports such as London, Bristol and Liverpool, where he boarded and investigated slave ships. He collected evidence such as iron handcuffs, branding irons and thumbscrews.
The American ship Henry B. Hyde has arrived at Liverpool, making the voyage from San Francisco in the remarkably quick time of 102 days, and neatly beating a fleet of fast German and English vessels.