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you Stick a pin in a map of Liverpool and the Chances Are you spit-is-a name associated with slavery.

Between 1700 and 1820, many were involved from The City of big shots in The Slave Trade , the exploitation of the triangular Trade - The Movement of goods and slaves between Britain, Africa and The Caribbean for the financing of their political, personal and social aspirations.

at least 25 of the period, the Lord mayor were slave-owners, or traders, and many of them have been immortalized in the likes of Tarleton', Cunliffe and Gildart streets.

The unpleasant fact has led to beat The City 's current mayor is Joe Anderson .

Dr. Richard Benjamin , the Director of the Liverpool International Slavery Museum, said that was a "welcome offer", but he would also like to be considered a "full-renaming" of streets.

"I don't think it's a Bad Move to rename streets for the people you want to represent your city," he said.

"you mean, I also understand the argument for the placement of street names in the context.

"A street, like Bold Street, which is very bohemian, is now named after a slave trader, Jonas Kuehne. It would be a statement if a road, such as it was on The List . "

the Bold Street is one of the prominent examples, but many other roads in The City are named after slave-owners, transporters, or traders - while a handful of those that celebrate the fight against the Trade .

Sir Thomas Johnson , the part-owner of one of The First recorded slave ships sail from Liverpool, and is known as The Founder of the modern city.

Born in The City in 1664, Sir Thomas Rose to prominence on the back of his father's estate, and represented Liverpool in Parliament in the early 1700s, pushing the crown of the recognition of The City and the construction of The City docks, which served its own interests, as he sugar, and tobacco traded, as well as slaves.

But, while the dock would lead to lost a huge increase in The City Trade , Sir Thomas, his fortune and lived his last years with a small pension.

Sir John Gladstone moved to Liverpool in the year 1786, to see the possibilities for financial gain in North America and The Caribbean , its assets increase by £4. 3m £51m in the modern conditions over the next three decades.

That the wealth be allowed to send Sir John, that his son William to Eton to school and The Boy would eventually serve four terms as Prime Minister .

He used his first speech before The House of Commons for the support of his father, the interests, the against the abolition, and while the argument failed, his finances - if slavery was abolished in the 1830s, the Gladstones will receive More Than £90,000, about £9. 5m in today's conditions, to release as a replacement for the slaves they were forced.

the controversy surrounding The Family name, in the year 2017, the students.

Thomas Parr, whose house still stands on The Corner of Parr Street and Colquitt Street, he was the owner of a massive slave-ship that was named after him.

the housing 700 berths for slaves, the Parr was in the year 1798, after he exploded, according to reports, on the West Coast of Africa - an indication, it is gunpowder carried to exchange for slaves.

Behind his house to his camp, which was now a Grade II-listed building, and is shown stood up to iron were delivered were also accommodated to Africa from Parr for the Trade with slaves.

After his fortune by the turn of The Century , Parr moved from Liverpool to Lythwood Hall, Shropshire, and in 1840, he met the natural scientist Charles Darwin , who will describe later him as "an old, miserly knight".

Thomas Parr move, freed his Liverpool house, in 1822, The House for the Liverpool Royal Institution was founded, an institution for the "promotion of literature, science and art".

Many of those involved in The Slave traders or owners were, but it was led by abolitionists William Roscoe, who was also a lawyer, author, art collector, banker, botanist, poet and politician.

After his election as a member of Parliament in 1806, Roscoe, William Wilberforce , secured The Movement to end the British participation in The Slave Trade .

His attitude was not without personal cost, as he was accosted by pro-slavery activists after his return to Liverpool and, later, his followers saw murdered in a related brawl but like any civic was proud of him, his name was also gardens, Roscoe Lane, Roscoe in The City .

The rise and wealth of the Earle family is inextricably linked with the slavery, as generations were involved in the Trade and possession of so-called Human Cargo .

John Earle , the leader of The Family , rise of, Trade in tobacco, sugar and iron were in the early 1700s, before his sons took over, with William, the youngest, as a team leader of a Slave Ship , and part-owner of other slaving vessels.

in The Following decades, their wealth accumulated, worthy of the slavery-supported industries and plantations, saw The Family a part of the device, with William's son Thomas construction Spekeland house, in close proximity to what Earle Road would be, and his grandson, Sir Hardman Earle, gives his name to the newly founded settlement of Earlestown, near Newton-le-Willows.

source: Historical England, Liverpool's International Slavery Museum

Source of news: bbc.com