Dr Morgan compares the performance of Bristol as a port with the growth of other out ports.

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

The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into

Pero was an enslaved man owned by the sugar planter and merchant John Pinney whose Bristol home is now the Georgian House Museum in Great George Street. This bo

This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy a