These 18th - 19th century collections reflect Liverpool's historic importance as a port city with an active mercantile community involved both in the slave trade and its abolition.
Trading records, logbooks and letter books in the papers of Liverpool historians:
Correspondence, minute books, business records and photographs of shipping lines and personnel trading in or with Liverpool.
18th-19th century pamphlets, slave narratives, microfilm and online resources
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1793)
The autobiographical account of a former enslaved person who bought his freedom and campaigned for the abolition of slavery. SPEC L34.2(2)