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World Service,21 Oct 1998,28 mins

Liverpool's Slave Legacy

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'A city built on the profits of slavery'. Professor James Walvin and Mike Boyle explain the importance of Liverpool to the British slave trade in which half of 13,000 slave voyages went through the city's port.

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