Liverpool slave trade

Liverpool, a port city in north-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. The trade developed in the eighteenth century, as Liverpool slave traders took part in the highly profitable triangular trade. Trade goods (tools, nails, etc.) were sent to the Bight of Biafra, sold there for a profit and slaves bought, the ships then crossed the Atlantic to the Americas and the slaves were sold there for a profit and agricultural products (tobacco, cotton, suger cane) bought, before the ships returned to Liverpool. There the cotton, for example, was sold to the cotton mills in the industrializing North of England to produce fabric.