Originally Posted by
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The prime trade of Liverpool was never slavery. Well the shipment of slaves. It was a sideline. Many leading Liverpool merchants were campaigning against slavery. If the prime trade was slavery, then that would be cutting off your own nose.
For a time it was. As irrelevant as it is to this discussion and, as I really can't be bothered to spell out the history of the importance of slave trading to Liverpool, this little quote will have to suffice:
"Liverpool was late in entering the slave trade but she quickly surpassed London and Bristol to become the number one slave port in the whole of Europe by the 1740s."
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There is little point in this denial in the face of overwhelming evidence and contemporaneous reports but if you're keen to dig further, you will find this quote and a further useful introduction at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/local...ry/intro.shtml and leave us in peace to talk about architecture
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