As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s

"Liverpool and the Slave Trade is the first comprehensive account of the city's role in the slave trade. Drawing on recent research, contemporary documents and

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th

As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significa