Many key figures involved in the appalling slave trade hailed from Lancashire - including Blackburn, Haslingden, and Lancaster. Some were monetarily compensated by the British government after the ...

Robin Blackburn, longtime editor of the New Left ... the United States to end their open participation in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. However, Anglo-American merchants continued to supply ...

Why did the Bengals give him permission to seek a trade? “As you're trying (to put) all these pieces together, you have certain limitations eventually,” Blackburn said. “He seemed to feel ...

Many key figures involved in the appalling slave trade hailed from Lancashire - including Blackburn, Haslingden, and Lancaster. Some were monetarily compensated by the British government after the ...