The Brontë museum has claimed Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff was of “black African descent” and inspired by former slaves.

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.

One was the Society's emblem. The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the Brookes. Below the plan was a detailed description of the Brookes and information about the ship's trading ...

13, No. 3, Jul., 1928 The Liverpool Movement for the Abolition... The Liverpool Movement for the Abolition of the English Slave Trade This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

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

Liverpool will "pause and remember" on August 23 as the city commemorates Slavery Remembrance Day. The date has become a "significant date" in the city's cultural calendar, since the commemorative ...

He visited slave trading ports such as London, Bristol and Liverpool, where he boarded and investigated slave ships. He collected evidence such as iron handcuffs, branding irons and thumbscrews.

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 ...