In this room, details of the voyage of the ship Essex are reconstructed. That’s a slave ship that left Liverpool on June 13, 1783, just nine years after the American Declaration of Independence.

After a lively controversy, the proposal was withdrawn. Liverpool was once the home of John Newton, the slave-ship captain who became an ardent abolitionist and wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." ...

Liverpool's first slaving vessel, ironically named the Blessing, set sail in 1700. In 1730, 15 Liverpool slave ships headed toward Africa; in 1799, 134 ships made the voyage.

Liverpool joined the slave trade in 1699 when a ship named Liverpool Merchant put to sea, carrying 220 slaves from West Africa to Barbados. Sir Thomas Johnson, a part-owner of the ship, is known ...

LIVERPOOL, England — At Town Hall, the facade has sculpted heads of African peoples — silent reminders of the victims of the slave trade that once helped make this city rich. Street nam… ...

Liverpool's first slave ship left the port in December, 1699 - here a drawing shows the crowded deck of a slave ship, full of unclothed slaves sitting under a tarp (Image: Getty Images) ...

The Portuguese slave ship had left Mozambique Island four weeks earlier and headed along the East African coast with its cargo of 500 captives, bound for the rice and cotton plantations of ...

Documents detailing the terms of employment for a slave ship sailing out of Liverpool more than 200 years ago are up for auction. The Mermaid left Liverpool in 1778 and rhw ship’s articles are ...

The slave trade enriched Liverpool and its prominent citizens, until Britain abolished the traffic in 1807.

The city is coming to terms with its past: the International Slavery Museum opened in 2007 in Royal Albert Dock, yards from where slave ships were fitted out and repaired.

Liverpool was an important port of call for slave ships traveling between Africa and the Americas. During the second half of the 18th century, much of the city's economy was based on the trade.

After a lively controversy the proposal was withdrawn. Liverpool was once the home of John Newton, the slave ship captain who became an ardent abolitionist and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace.” ...