Lloyds of London archives show how important the city was to the transatlantic slave trade

Lloyds of London archives show how important the city was to the transatlantic slave trade

In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolized the brutal economics of slavery. Two years previously, the Liverpool slave ship Zong had set out from Accra, in present-day Ghana, with 442 men, women and children crammed in its hold.