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Click here to see our Events. Liverpool's greatest period of economic wealth from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century came at a price: the ruthless exploitation of African resources, which not only included raw materials but also humans.

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Places to Visit

To truly realise the breadth of black heritage in Liverpool there is a wide range of sites worth visiting.

International Slavery Museum: The galleries at the International Slavery Museum (housed within the Merseyside Maritime Museum) feature new dynamic and thought-provoking displays about the story of the transatlantic slave trade.

Events

Liverpool is a multi-ethnic, multi-faithed city awash with culture. All year round there are events relating to black heritage that may appeal to everyone.

Archive

Below is a selection of images from Liverpool's black community, courtesy of Pidgin Productions.

Slavery Trail Walking Tours

There are many ways in which you can learn about Liverpool's varied history and involvement in the slave trade and its abolition. On this website we offer you the opportunity to choose the tour most suited to your needs.

Guided Tours: Guided Tours led by qualified guides take place year round. These tours are suitable for individuals, groups, schools and organisations that wish to add to their knowledge of the Liverpool slave trade.
Other Black Heritage Tours: There are a variety of tours in the Liverpool City Region that reveal fascinating and undiscovered aspects of our city's history.
Slavery Remembrance mp3 Tour: How to Download By downloading the tour you will be able to listen to it whenever you want, either on your computer or by transferring it to a portable MP3 player.

Liverpool's Early Black Presence

There have been people of African descent in Liverpool since at least the 1700s. Some Africans were sold in the town in the 1760s and 1770s but very few enslaved Africans were brought to Liverpool directly from Africa.

History

It is true to say that without the transatlantic slave trade Liverpool would not have, according to one Liverpool MP, become 'the second place in wealth and population in the British Empire.

: Time Line for the British Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition 1555: A group of Africans (from present day Ghana) are brought to England by John Lok, a London merchant, to learn English so that they can act as ...
2007 and the Bicentenary of Abolition of the Slave Trade: 2007 marks the bicentenary of the act which abolished the slave trade in the British empire. The trade had begun in 1562, during the reign of Elizabeth I when John Hawkins led the first slaving expedition.

Black Liverpool Today

The diversity of Liverpool's black community can be quite clearly seen today if one walks down the majestic Princes Avenue, one of the main streets in the Toxteth L8 area of the city.

Black History Month Awards 2007: The 2007 Black History Month Achievers Awards were held on the 27th October at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.
Market Research Interviewers: Below is a list of individuals from the Liverpool black community who may be available to perform interviews at tourism events for market research: - Bali Abuud - Toxteth, Liverpool - Ngunan Adamu - Wavertree, Liverpool - Stacey Cocker ...

Links

In the past few years there has been an explosion of resources which pertain not only to the black community in Britain as a whole, but to the study of black history and heritage.

General Internet Resources for British Black Heritage: Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain The National Archives website with a virtual, interactive exhibition Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England Black and Asian History in Britain Black Britain News and information service The Black ...
Other Links: The Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture in New York is an excellent resource for black heritage and slavery.
Resources for black heritage (by region): North West International Slavery Museum Liverpool's new, dynamic and thought-provoking gallery displays the story of the transatlantic slave trade A Virtual Tour of the Black and Asian Presence in Liverpool, 1500-1850 The National Archive website with an illuminating virtual ...

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If you would like us to publicise your event or for general enquiries, please email us at alena.tan@merseyside.org.uk . For more information about Liverpool, go to visitliverpool.com .