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London: Frank Cass & Co Ltd, 1968. By the last half of the 18th century Liverpool had ousted London and Bristol from the profitable trade in slaves. This became the time when Liverpool merchants made fortunes and built fine houses and new public buildings. The ships became swifter and larger. The slave traders were shocked when their trade began to be branded as cruel, and plausible justifications were proclaimed in Parliament. But the agitation once started would not be silenced, and the author sympathetically describes the gradual triumph of the Abolitionists with the character studies of the leading figures from both sides of the controversy. Liverpool herself was to make many honourable contributions to the ranks of the reformers. Drawing upon contemporary records and letters, many of them hitherto unpublished, the author gives a graphic description of the ships overcrowded with human cargo, the mutinies of slaves and seamen, and the horrors of the notorious middle passage. Both the…
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Last Years of the English Slave Trade, Liverpool 1705-1807 Hardcover - 1968
by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve
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- Title Last Years of the English Slave Trade, Liverpool 1705-1807
- Author Averil Mackenzie-Grieve
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint of the 1
- Pages 331
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London
- Date May 1, 1968
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780714618951 / 0714618950
- Library of Congress subjects Slave trade - Great Britain - History, Slave trade - England - Liverpool - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 68116315
- Dewey Decimal Code 380.144
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by Averil Mackenzie Grieve
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- first
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London: Frank Cass & Co Ltd, 1968. By the last half of the 18th century Liverpool had ousted London and Bristol from the profitable trade in slaves. This became the time when Liverpool merchants made fortunes and built fine houses and new public buildings. The ships became swifter and larger. The slave traders were shocked when their trade began to be branded as cruel, and plausible justifications were proclaimed in Parliament. But the agitation once started would not be silenced, and the author sympathetically describes the gradual triumph of the Abolitionists with the character studies of the leading figures from both sides of the controversy. Liverpool herself was to make many honourable contributions to the ranks of the reformers. Drawing upon contemporary records and letters, many of them hitherto unpublished, the author gives a graphic description of the ships overcrowded with human cargo, the mutinies of slaves and seamen, and the horrors of the notorious middle passage. Both the…
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