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The Slave Trade's Hidden Ledger: The Women Who Financed Empire
In this episode, we turn the spotlight away from the ships and the barracoons to the counting houses of Liverpool, Bristol, and Nantes — and the women who kept them running. While the public face of the Atlantic slave trade was famously male, a surprising number of widows, daughters, and wives invested heavily in slave voyages, inherited slave-trading firms, and even managed ships. We follow Elizabeth Thwaytes, a Liverpool widow who owned shares in slave ships in the 1750s; Mary Waring, who inherited her husband's slave-trading business in Bristol; and the wealthy French widows of…
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