Location Liverpool

Liverpool was once known as the European capital of the transatlantic slave trade, with its ships transporting a staggering 1.5 million Africans into a life of slavery. Despite the port not being directly involved in its early days, by 1795 Liverpool had the monopoly of five-eighths of the whole of the European Slave Trade, which generated vast wealth for the city. Major civic buildings, mansions, industrial developments and dock facilities, resulted from the trade in human souls, as was the wealth of the nation in general. Liverpool was responsible for 80% of all British voyages, in the final decade of the slave trade before abolition in Britain in 1807, and its empire in 1832.