Originally Posted by
A.D.Williams
Why would the merchants bring the slaves back to Liverpool? The slave trade was a three legged journey. Goods sent to Africa were
sold in exchange for slaves. The slaves were then transported to the West Indies to work on the plantations there. The sugar and tobacco were then
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transported back to Blighty.
Slave ship captains could well have brought some slaves back to be their own personal servants and for eventual
sale. Scouse Press publication "Liverpool & Slavery" refers to adverts in the Liverpool Chronicle and Liverpool Advertiser of slave auctions in coffee houses
in the 1760s in Water St and Old Churchyard
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