Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c. 1750-75

The empire in one city?

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 17-34

  Haggerty, Sheryllynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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