TheOne, you & I know that for the longest time, Blacks/Africans have been in Liverpool..
Though the article mentions 'slaves', it does not specifically mention the slave trade!
Liverpool was the hub of the British slave trade, starting from about 1669.
I think the first slave ship was "Liverpool Merchant", which sailed to Africa and returned with hundreds of slaves, of which about 200 made their way to Barbados, etc etc etc..
In other words, Liverpool always had a Black community..
So this was much more than Blacks in the Caribbean heading to Liverpool as soldiers or sailors etc etc.
There's no way the slave merchants wouldn't have kept some of the kidnapped Africans in Liverpool itself, so there had to have been Blacks in Liverpool from the get-go..
I think the article's writer didn't present the history properly, which is unfortunate.
And what da hell do some of those Liverpool mulattoes mean by terms like "melanin challenged black person", or "intergenerationally mixed"?
What kind of mongrel/mixed-breed language shit is this?
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