Originally Posted by
Waterways
Some ships through one reason or another ended
up with holds full of slaves back in Liverpool. Many unintentionally.
Not so sure about this. Ships leaving Goree and other West African Coast ports
had lots of options for discharging thier human gargo's between the West African coast and Liverpool. Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, Santander, Balboa or even the
passage to the Portuguese markets on the Cape Verde Islands, not to mention Bristol, or the many English Channel ports and numerous Mediteranean ports were
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all options, rather than Liverpool. Even allowing for an average 30% attrition rate (figures for the middle passage) which is not likely on the shorter
voyage to Europe, I don't where the market would be, in North West England, for between 150 and 170 Africans.
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