Remembering the Slave Trade in Liverpool

Realms of Memory

How has the slave trade been remembered in Liverpool—the world’s leading slave-trading port city in the eighteenth century? Jessica Moody, author of The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world,’ explains how the slave trade has never been forgotten in Liverpool. It has lived on through public debates about the city’s identity, through the city’s anniversaries, through the city’s black population, through the celebrations of civic heroes, through museums and through the streets and neighborhoods long connected to Liverpool’s dark past.