Readers: George Sephton and John Graham Davies
Music: Stan Ambrose
Length: 6.32 mins
Edward Rushton was the most outstanding Liverpool opponent of slavery. His passionate stand contradicts the compromising opposition of wealthy men like Roscoe and Rathbone, who were close friends of the slave merchants.
The Rathbones continued their supply of timber to the slave trade until the Quakers, in 1783, formed a special committee on the slave trade and presented a substantial anti-slavery petition to Parliament.