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A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of liverpool...together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive african trade.. - 1795

by [WALLACE, James]

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Liverpool: Printed for and sold by R. Phillips, 1795. vi, 301pp, [3]. With an engraved folding plan and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in later gilt-ruled calf-backed black paper boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting, small hole to leaf P5, touching text without loss of sense, occasional inked/pencilled annotations. The first edition of an authoritative history of Liverpool, with particular attention paid to the regions involvement in the slave trade. From original documents, the author constructs yearly tables revealing the intense concentration in the Liverpool slave trade from 1783 to 1793; for example, in 1783, 85 ships transported 39,170 slaves with a total sterling value of a staggering £1,958,500. Wallace concludes his statistical analysis with a summation of the remarkable dominance of the city in relation to the slave trade in the late eighteenth century; firstly, that 'one- fourth of the ships belonging to the port of Liverpool are employed in the African trade', secondly that 'it has five-eights of the African trade of Great Britain' and thirdly that 'is has three-sevenths of the African trade of all Europe'. . First edition. 8vo.
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  • Title A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of liverpool...together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive african trade..
  • Author [WALLACE, James]
  • Edition First edition
  • Publisher Printed for and sold by R. Phillips, Liverpool
  • Date 1795
  • Bookseller's Inventory # AQ13680

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