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Old Liverpool Newspaper Cuttings
The Times, May 21st, 1789.
A petiton to Parliament against the abolition of slavery.
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The Times, Mar 24th, 1788.
Public sale at the 4th Custom House, at the head of the Old Dock.
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The Times, Feb 5th, 1789.
Public sale at the 4th Custom House, at the head of the Old Dock.
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A Liverpool letter from 1831...
...spotted at a small Civil War museum in Grand Gulf Military State Park in Mississippi, just South of Vicksburg, on our trip last month.
It is from Liverpool agent to a plantation owner discussing the markets in cotton, tobacco and wheat.
In 1831, Liverpool was receiving 18,000 bales of cotton a week to keep the Northern mills going. Anyone know about how many ship loads that was?
The museum manager was very helpful and took the letter out of it's clear cover and we photographed it in the sun outside. Alex Gordon who penned it had nice handwriting.
I have some more pictures taken at the "other" Cotton Exchange in Memphis if any one is interested... the one that supplied the cotton to the Liverpool Cotton Exchange.
Make sure you get the picture in it's full 2024 pixel resolution to read it...
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