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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]
Eliza Cropper was a leading member of the Liverpool Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association, founded in the city in 1827 and gave supported to her father, James Cropper's abolitionist activities. [54] According to Joshua Civin's the Revival of Antislavery in the 1820s at the Local, National, and Global Levels (2001) James Cropper could not have ...
William Rathbone IV (10 June 1757 – 11 February 1809) was an English ship-owner and merchant involved in the organisation of American trade with Liverpool, England. [1] He was a political radical, supporting the abolition of the slave trade and universal suffrage. He was a member of the noted Rathbone family.
In 1781-1782 he was Mayor of Liverpool. [17] Liverpool was Britain's pre-eminent slave trading city and at least twenty-five Mayors of Liverpool were slave traders. [18] In 1787, the Liverpool Council became concerned with the growth of the abolition movement and they petitioned Parliament against the regulation of the slave trade.
Liverpool was Britain's pre-eminent slave trading city and at least twenty-five Lord Mayors of Liverpool were slave traders. [10] In 1762, William Gregson became Lord Mayor and in 1784 so did his son, and fellow slaver, John Gregson. [ 11 ]
Isaac, Adam Hodgson's brother, was the secretary of the Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society, properly the Liverpool Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. James Cropper (1773–1840) through business connections with the Rathbone and Benson families came to know the Hodgsons; all three belonged to the Society. He was a friend of Adam, and ...
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.
The Liverpool-born politician William Roscoe was member for Liverpool in 1806–1807, and was able to vote for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. [20] This legislation imposed fines that did little to deter slave trade participants; 29 avowed slaving voyages left Liverpool in 1808, but none in 1809, two in 1810, and two more in 1811.