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World Service,05 Aug 2002,26 mins

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Retracing Daniel Defoe's 18th Century journey, John Pickford reaches Liverpool and uncovers its connection to the slave trade. "They simply saw slaves as another commodity" says Dr Mike Power from Liverpool University.

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