Liverpool and the Slave Trade

by Anthony Tibbles

During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships carried a larger number of Africans than those of any other European port. White colonial owners used the enslaved Africans to produce sugar and other valuable tropical goods which were consumed at home...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786941538
• ISBN13: 9781786941534
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 9.9"