fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoLiverpool black history researchers discover slaver ship advert from 1805
The 220-year-old ad, which was placed in Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser, reads: Apply to Lake and Brown: We have on sale by private contract, the remarkably fast sailing ship Metis, Liverpool built, about nine years old, copper fastened on the stocks, is very well found and will carry by the present act, about 185 slaves.
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