British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

Catalogue record

Notes

This series brings together a wealth of collections spanning two centuries of Britain's colonisation, commercial, missionary and even literary relations with the Africa and the Americas. Alongside the records of Liverpool merchants involved in the infamous Triangular Trade, there are those of slave plantation owners, of early Anglican missionaries, of naval and customs officials, and of a group of socialists from Lancashire, who maintained a lengthy correspondence over many years with the father of American poetry. (Click on the above link for further details.)