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Liverpool and the slave trade (1750–1807)

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1750–1807 — Liverpool is Britain’s leading slave-trading port. Its ships carried between 1.3 and 1.5 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. After 1807, cotton grown by enslaved people in the American South arrives at the same docks. Remember them.

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Site of memory
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Cotton and the factory system (chapter 2 of Industrial Revolution)
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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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Map showing Liverpool and the slave trade (1750–1807), site of memory in The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
SITE OF MEMORY · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914

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