A central Liverpool street will become the first in the city to have a plaque installed explaining its links to slavery.
The plaque will be unveiled close to the World Museum Liverpool on William Brown Street on April 5, explaining the street's history and its slave trade origins. William Brown Street will be the first of around ten Liverpool streets to have an ‘Eric Scott Lynch Slavery Histories’ plaque installed, named in honour of the activist and historian who died last year.
Eric spent his life drawing attention to Liverpool’s links with slavery and, through his family, he played a key role in identifying which areas of the city were directly linked with the slave economy and the growth of the city. These include streets named after slavers or places connected with the trade, as well as those located in areas that frequently feature in current walking tours of the city.
