Liverpool addresses its slave trade past


The sign for Cunliffe Street, with an alternative street name attached below celebrating the black author Austin Steward, is pictured in Liverpool, UK. – AFP pic, July 11, 2020.

ANNA Rothery is the first black woman to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Liverpool, a largely ceremonial role for elected councillors to promote the interests of the city.

Yet she finds hard one aspect of Liverpool’s past that made the city what it is today – its links to the international slave trade.


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