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.

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, ...

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 ...

In Liverpool, Echoes of a Dark Era. Bicentennial of British Abolition Act Reminds City of Its Ties to Slave Trade. March 17, 2007. By Robert Barr. LIVERPOOL, England -- LIVERPOOL, England.

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 names ...

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND — Beatles lovers who seek out Penny Lane imagine it as that magical place "in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies." But it has a sinister undertone ...

In Liverpool ships were loaded with cottons and woollens, guns, iron, ... The building and repair of slave ships 2. Slave trading 3. Slave produced goods – cotton, sugar etc 4.

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 ...

When the captains had sold their captives their ships returned to Liverpool with goods such as sugar, coffee, cocoa and tobacco. In the 1790s, Liverpool controlled 80% of the British slave trade ...

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 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 history.

LONDON – Penny Lane will keep its name. Liverpool officials said Saturday they would modify a proposal to rename streets linked to the slave trade when they realized the road made famous by the ...