In 1571, Liverpool petitioned Queen Elizabeth I as "Her Majesty's Poor Decayed Town," скачать в хорошем качестве

In 1571, Liverpool petitioned Queen Elizabeth I as "Her Majesty's Poor Decayed Town,"

In 1571, Liverpool petitioned Queen Elizabeth I as "Her Majesty's Poor Decayed Town," with a population of around 600. Just 250 years later, it had become the busiest port in the transatlantic slave trade, dispatching ships that transported over 1.5 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic — more than any other port in history. From a tidal pool settlement founded by King John in 1207 (named from Old English for "muddy pool"), ignored by Romans and Vikings alike and omitted from the Domesday Book, Liverpool remained small for centuries: seven streets in an H-shape, a castle (demolished 1726), and St Nicholas Church (1257). Population hovered under 1,000 by the mid-1300s and fell to 600 by the 1500s. The shift began in 1699 with the Liverpool Merchant's first recorded slave voyage: goods to Africa, 220 enslaved people to Barbados, return cargo of sugar and tobacco. Profits encouraged repetition. By the 1730s, around 15 slave ships sailed annually; by 1750, that had tripled. The 1715 opening of the world's first commercia