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Waterways
Many were already sold, they just eneded
up in Liverpool, and eventually in the Caribbean.
Perhaps so, I wouldn't have any knowledge of that. I do, however, know from the accessible archives
located in the Central/Picton Library in Liverpool and Liverpool University that, very few Africans, between 1619, the acknowledged year that modern European
slavery from Africa started until the abolition by Britain in 1833, very few Africans, in comparison to those carried in Liverpool ships, were sold into
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bondage in Liverpool it's self.
I know some, for whatever reason, would like the history of Liverpool and it's involvement in the trade in human
misery to be more complicit than it already is. Perhaps there are other sources that I have overlooked that shed light on your claim. I would be grateful if
you could pass the information, and it's source, along, your information might fill in some gaps in my own incomplete knowledge of the subject. Thanks in
advance.
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