Zong Massacre and Liverpool's Slavery Street Shame from young girl y video Watch Video
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Description: Video courtesy of the Mongoose Collective.nnWith Liverpool City Council about to unveil a selection of information plaques on a handful of streets connected to the city's slave trade history, this short film explores some of the hidden horrors and slave traders who have slipped through the net to escape being named and shamed.Many of them unfortunately former Liverpool mayors.One of them, William Gregson, was behind the infamous Zong Massacre of 1781 and can claim more than 9,000 slave death