SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Bristol
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Liverpool
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Glasgow
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London
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Detailed explanation-1: -Liverpool. Liverpool also grew into a powerful city, directly through the shipping of enslaved people. By the end of the 18th century Liverpool controlled over 60 per cent of the entire British slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Liverpool played a large role in the transatlantic slave trade which has been remebered and recorded throughout the International Slavery Museum, found today at the Royal Albert Dock.
Detailed explanation-3: -’ This massive growth and prosperity was, in the main, paid for by the infamous triangular trade of sugar, tobacco and slaves between the West Indies, Africa and the Americas. Being strategically placed to exploit such transatlantic trade, Liverpool soon became the fastest growing city in the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -1815-1914: major world port In the 19th century, Liverpool rose to become, after London, the second port of the British Empire and one of the greatest ports in the world.
Detailed explanation-5: -By the early 19th century a whopping 40% of the world’s trade passed through Liverpool’s Docks.