
The Irish Sea and Atlantic Slavery | Ports, Past and Present
Nearly 5,000 slaving expeditions left Liverpool between the 1690s and the closure of the British slave trade in 1807. The scale and duration of the trade was such that it could not fail to affect ports and their hinterlands on both sides of the Channel. Not least, the slave trade made demands on shipyards. Most of Liverpool's slaving fleet was built in timberrich North America or on the ...