It's not just a part of the Liverpool museum; we have the entire International Slavery Museum. It's a hard fact for any proud Liverpudlian to truly come to terms with, but some parts of our city's grandest histories were built with the blood of Africans.
Thankfully, the Penny Lane thing was disproven a few years ago. Although there are other streets in the area named after slavers, Penny Lane is now not thought to be one of them.
Liverpool was so involved with the American slave trade that the last official act of the Confederacy was the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah at our town hall. It was thought to be the friendliest place they could turn.
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It's not just a part of the Liverpool museum; we have the entire International Slavery Museum. It's a hard fact for any proud Liverpudlian to truly come to terms with, but some parts of our city's grandest histories were built with the blood of Africans.
Thankfully, the Penny Lane thing was disproven a few years ago. Although there are other streets in the area named after slavers, Penny Lane is now not thought to be one of them.
Liverpool was so involved with the American slave trade that the last official act of the Confederacy was the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah at our town hall. It was thought to be the friendliest place they could turn.
We are not proud of this aspect of our history.