Some founders of Liverpool's oldest private members' club had links with the slave trade
A research group has discovered over a third of the founding members of a private members' club had direct ties to the slave trade.
Historian and founding member of LBHRG Laurence Westgaph said: "Our initial findings shine a light on a profoundly difficult aspect of the city's history, often overlooked in favour of abolitionist narratives. Unquestionably, the power dynamics amongst early shareholders heavily favoured those with an interest in maintaining the slave trade, contrary to the abolitionists' story the Athenaeum have chosen to adopt.
Half of the 22 first officers of the committee were involved and its first president George Case was involved in over 140 voyages capturing over 45,000 Africans to be sold into slavery on plantations. The Athenaeum have since responded to the LBHRG findings and updated their website and pledged support to phase two of the LBHRG research.
“It is essential we acknowledge and engage with it. I look forward to reading the results of his research in full.
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