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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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