International Slavery Museum
National museum on transatlantic slavery, its legacies and freedom struggles, beside a historic dock.
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This guide to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool follows the Zong, a slave ship owned by a syndicate of the city's merchants, from the African coast in August seventeen eighty-one toward Jamaica, with every captive aboard insured like cargo. It brings in a former Lord Mayor, a captain on his first command, the freed African Olaudah Equiano and the campaigner Granville Sharp. Best heard on the dockside, looking across the water toward the old Dock Traffic Office.
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