On Liverpool’s 1st Black resident and how the city’s Black community became the oldest in Europe
2 years ago
More than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves between 1515 and the mid-19th Century. Some two million of the enslaved men, women and children died on their way to the Americas. In 1700, Liverpool was a fishing port with about 5,000 people. The figure rose to 78,000 by...