Before Bristol there was Dorset. Merchants from Poole, Weymouth, and Lyme Regis were involved in the trading of slaves from West Africa with colonial West Indies. There is a suggestion that the main reason the shipping moved from Dorset to Bristol was because larger ships needed bigger and deeper ports. Whatever the reason the legacyContinue reading “Notes on slavery, the slave trade, and the counties of Dorset and Wiltshire”
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Colin Brady 