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A paper which looks at the importance of the slave trade to the commercial and economic growth of Liverpool, and the extent to which slavery influenced the development of the Black community in the city. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLslavtrd.rtf
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As noted by National Museums Liverpool (2004), Liverpool played a major part in the establishment and growth of the slave trade, particularly in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Slaving was the source of considerable wealth for both the town as a whole, and for individual inhabitants, and it was the slave trade which formed the basis for future
economic growth of the town. The slave trade grew slowly, and not always consistently. As NML points out, there were only about 15 ships a year going to Africa
in the 1730s, and although this had increased to 100 a year by the 1770s, there was a decline during the American War of Independence. Numbers rose again, however, and
by the beginning of the nineteenth century 75% of all slave ships left from Liverpool. NML estimates that half of all slaves carried travelled on Liverpool ships.
Clearly, the towns involvement in the slave trade was considerable and significant.
However, as NML notes, it is not clear exactly why Liverpool came to dominate the trade so effectively. Some historians have suggested that merchants in Liverpool were falling behind in
other Atlantic trades, particularly sugar and tobacco, and were therefore looking for more lucrative commodities. Others consider geographical factors to have been more important that commercial ones: Liverpool had easy
access, through rivers and canals, to many of the goods traded in Africa. These included textiles from the cotton and wool industries of Lancashire and Yorkshire, copper and brass from
Staffordshire and weapons from Birmingham.
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