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Bristol, a port city in the South West of England, on the banks of the River Avon, has been an important location for maritime trade for centuries.[1]
In the time of Anglo-Saxon England, Bristol was the principal port for the export of English slaves to Ireland.
Bristol was the leading English port in the transatlantic slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. It has been estimated that Bristol merchants traded over 500,000 enslaved African people.