Mapping Modernity

5. Liverpool

25 October 2023

Liverpool map

This map of Liverpool aims to promote ‘useful knowledge’. This city with its harbour docks became rich from its leading role in the British slave trade and then from importing raw cotton from slave plantations in the southern United States.

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Liverpool, London 1836. Coll. S/T U.1h.3, 35.5 x 41.5 cm.