In the span of a hundred years, from 1700 to 1800, the town of Liverpool in northwest England was transformed from what was "not much more than a fishing village" into one of the busiest slave ...

Wells acknowledged the evils of slavery, but said he wanted to make the people of Liverpool proud of their city's role in bolstering the South during the American Civil War, "to let Liverpool ...

A set of shackles used to hold enslaved Africans in forts and castles along the coast from Tamale, Ghana, are displayed last month at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England.

click image for close-up Liverpool's extensive growth during the 18th century, due in large measure to profits made in the Atlantic slave trade, brought an increasing demand for storage space.

4 Gomer Williams, the man, remains something of a mystery. By the late nineteenth century, when he compiled this volume, slave trading from the port of Liverpool had been over for the better part of a ...

The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is ten years old on March 26. When it was passed, it was billed as “world-leading” ...

The boy was supposedly a stowaway who came to the city and was found by Windus on the doorstep of the Monument Hotel. Where ...

Liverpool will "pause and remember" on August 23 as the city commemorates Slavery Remembrance Day. The date has become a ...

Two popular Liverpool museums will close to the public in six weeks. The International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum on Liverpool’s waterfront will close on January 5, as ‘essential repair and ...

During the 18th century, Liverpool made about £300,000 a year from the slave trade. The slave trade made a great deal of money for the city's docks. The stimulus it gave to trading and industrial ...