The methods, exploits and profits of privateers and slave traders who fuelled the growth of early modern Liverpool.

"This nineteenth-century classic is the most detailed period document on privateering and the slave trade. The first half of the book concentrates on privateering, covering ...

Williams (b. 1847?) was a writer in Liverpool, but apparently not a very successful one. This history, published in 1897 by William Heinemann in London and Edward Howell in ...