Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour

The Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour was developed and inspired by our Archive Project, in collaboration with . During the project our team revealed the extent of Dorothy’s involvement in the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade Gallery, Slavery Remembrance Day and the International Slavery Museum. Along with Liverpool activist and historian Eric Lynch (1932-2022), Dorothy delivered slavery walking tours in collaboration with NML in the mid 1990s. It is local black activists like Dorothy and Eric that have played an integral role in how Liverpool remembers and commemorates its heavy involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

On this tour we explore the many sites and streets with direct links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Liverpool city centre. We discuss the depth of the city’s connections to the trade of enslaved Africans and the goods they produced long after its abolition in Britain. This tour also considers the legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the origins of anti-black racism and white supremacy, which in the 18th and 19th centuries were seen as justifications for horrific oppression and continue to encourage racial hatred violence in the present day.

Starting at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the tour will then cover the L1 and L2 districts, ending at Liverpool Town Hall.

Starting point: Merseyside Maritime Museum, Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ

End point: Liverpool Town Hall, High St, Liverpool, L2 3SW

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