This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations

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As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s

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Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland.