Museum about history of slavery to open in English city that once profited from it
LIVERPOOL, England: A museum charting the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade opens to the public this week, focussing on the way this city enriched itself on human trafficking, but also on the resistance of enslaved Africans showed.
In some ways it will be the latest chapter in Liverpool's efforts to come to terms with its past.
In 1999, its city council formally apologized, expressing "shame and remorse for the city's role in this trade in human misery." It also has commissioned statues entitled "Reconciliation" — two abstract bronze figures embracing. They are being dedicated this year in Richmond, Virginia, and Benin, a West African port of call for Liverpool's slave ships.
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In some ways it will be the latest chapter in Liverpool's efforts to come to terms with its past.
In 1999, its city council formally apologized, expressing "shame and remorse for the city's role in this trade in human misery." It also has commissioned statues entitled "Reconciliation" — two abstract bronze figures embracing. They are being dedicated this year in Richmond, Virginia, and Benin, a West African port of call for Liverpool's slave ships.