Liverpool Slavery Images

[taffy]

Thanks very much for this input Kev. All quite fascinating. With regards to the 1767 advert for a slave in Liverpool, slavery in England was abolished in 1772 by the Lord Mansfield judgement. The slave trade was made illegal by 1807 and slavery in the colonies was banned by about 1838.

It's interesting to see the items being loaded up for trade to the local African Kings in exchange for the slaves they had collected for sale to European slave traders including those from Liverpool.

Attached is a photo of the gravestone of one of the slave traders mentioned in your images: Peter Whitfield Brancker. Gravestone at St James Cemetery, Liverpool

http://www.stjamescemetery.co.uk/