- Publisher: Pen & Sword
- Year: 2013
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 265pp
- Illustrated: No
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781781591741
- Product code: 506179
Triangle Trade
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A lieutenant in the Navy, William King is sickened by what he sees on a Spanish slaver. When he returns home to Liverpool in 1805, his discovery that his father’s shipping company has become involved in the trade sparks a conflict that reflects the political debates of the period. (Contains material previously published in Ice King.)
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In 1804, Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success, in Parliament, of the anti-slavery movement. Few, in Liverpool, condemned the 'Trade'. William King, son of a Liverpool slave trader, sickened by what he experienced aboard a Spanish slaver, was one of the few who did speak out. This epic, set during the dying days of this despicable practice, weaves themes of generational change, moral wickedness, greed, romance, and the fortunes of war as they impact upon the lives of a father and son caught up in the turmoil that preceded the implementation of the British Trade Act of 1807, which would end Britain's involvement in the slave trade. The city of Liverpool is one still scarred by its past involvement with the morally contemptible Triangle Trade. Indeed, the cities prosperity was built on the profits of slavery, and the reverberations of this inheritance continue to impact on the city today.
This novel roots the reader firmly in a city on the brink of change, evoking a real sense of the struggles at play, and informing our understanding of the realities of slavery, those who fueled its continuation and those who brought about its eventual cessation, as well as the legacy inherited by the City of Liverpool and the wider world.
This novel roots the reader firmly in a city on the brink of change, evoking a real sense of the struggles at play, and informing our understanding of the realities of slavery, those who fueled its continuation and those who brought about its eventual cessation, as well as the legacy inherited by the City of Liverpool and the wider world.
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A lieutenant in the Navy, William King is sickened by what he sees on a Spanish slaver. When he returns home to Liverpool in 1805, his discovery that his father’s shipping company has become involved in the trade sparks a conflict that reflects the political debates of the period. (Contains material previously published in Ice King.)
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