The Crime of Slavery | www.iede.co.uk

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The Crime of Slavery | www.iede.co.uk: LIVERPOOL, Feb 20 (IPS) - �That Liverpool was once the uncontested centre of the world slave trade, accounting for 40 percent, is well documented in the International Slavery Museum in the port where slave ships docked. The trade was triangular: from Liverpool (Bristol, London) with Manchester textiles, metals, beads, alcohol and guns for slave traders in the Bay of Guinea; with slaves from there to the Caribbean, the ‘Middle Passage’; and from the Caribbean -- with sugar, coffee and cotton grown by slaves � back to England. To stealing people � two-thirds young men from 15 to 25 years of age � and killing their societies, the colonisers added stealing raw materials in return for cheap manufactures. This lasted from the beginning � practiced by the Portuguese in 1502 -- till the slave trade was forbidden in England in 1807: but it continued in other ways.