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The Atlantic end of the Lancashire system. Liverpool's eighteenth-century growth was built on the slave trade — the port dominated the British triangular trade until abolition in 1807 — and…
53.4, -3.0 · approximate · port growth c. 1700–1900
On the world
- A place in: Industrial Revolution · 6 places
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Connections
- is located in of Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021) — The inscribed and later delisted World Heritage areas are the historic docks and mercantile quarter of the city itself.
- is transported to of Raw cotton — Raw cotton was landed at Liverpool and carried inland to the Lancashire spinning towns, first by river and canal and after 1830 by rail.
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