Liverpool and transatlantic slavery / edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles.

A collection of essays originally presented at the International Conference on Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in October 2005 and published to coincide with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British Slave Trade. The editors describe the collection as giving greater prominence to the human dimensions of the slave trade and providing a more complete picture of the relationship between personal action, social capital and international commercial opportunities in shaping the economic and social history of Liverpool. The essays fall into two groups - the first relates to the organisation of the Liverpool slave trade and provides an insight into how it came to dominate the British slave trade. The second group of essays focus on the human and social outcomes of the trade including the wealth and social aspirations of Liverpool's slave merchants and the growth of the abolition movement in Liverpool.