In 1730, 15 Liverpool slave ships headed toward Africa; in 1799, 134 ships made the voyage. Although some voyages reaped huge profits -- the ship "Lively" made a profit of 300% in 1737 -- the ...

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 ...

That’s a slave ship that left Liverpool on June 13, 1783, just nine years after the American Declaration of Independence. During the Middle Passage portion, visitors encounter shackles and ...

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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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Clarkson commissioned a diagram of the Liverpool slave ship Brookes to be reproduced for his campaign. He did not draw the image as the story, on Mar. 24, incorrectly said.

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 ...

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 ...