William Gregson: The British Slave Trader Whose Voyages Claimed Over 9,000 Enslaved African Lives

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In 18th-century Liverpool, the docks bustled with ships and merchants chasing wealth, but much of that fortune was built on the lives and suffering of thousands of enslaved Africans who were treated as mere cargo. One of the men who rose to prominence through this trade was William Gregson. Over the course of his career, […]
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