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Although Liverpool vessels were involved in the slave trade before the dock opened, the Liverpool Merchant sailing for Africa on the 16 Oct 1699, [8] and selling 220 slaves in Barbados in 1700, [9] a second 30 tonne vessel being recorded as sailing for Africa in 1709, [10] it would have served ships involved in the Africa-America trade ...
Parr was built in Liverpool and named for owners Thomas and John Parr, members of an eminent local slave-trading family. She was built to accommodate seven hundred captives. [ 6 ] Parr was not only the largest Liverpool slave ship, but at 566 tons (bm), the largest vessel in the entire British trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved people.
By 1750 Liverpool was the pre-eminent slave trading port in Great Britain. Thereafter Liverpool's control of the industry continued to grow. [6] In the period between 1793 and 1807, when the slave trade was abolished, Liverpool accounted for 84.7% of all slave voyages, with London accounting for 12% and Bristol 3.3%. [7]
Portrait of James Penny by Thomas Hargreaves. James Penny (died 1799) was an English merchant and slave trader who was a prominent defender of the Liverpool slave trade.The famous Penny Lane street in Liverpool has been associated with him although it is now widely regarded as of an unconnected origin.
Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England).
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She left Liverpool on 26 August 1786 and left Calabar after 281 days. [8] (However, the same source states that Tarleton and Fairweather left Liverpool on 25 December 1786, [14] which is more consistent with having arrived in Liverpool in September, and is also consistent with the data in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. [15])
Liverpool need back-up for the impressive Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool FC via Getty Images) Factoring in the ages of Salah and Van Dijk and the possibility that, if they re-sign, a replacement ...