Bristol was popular with slave traders because it was a handy English port from which to sail to Dublin. Dublin, Ireland’s first town, was founded in 841 by Viking slavers (Haywood, 2008) and its prosperity and growth were closely bound up with the slave trade (Cunliffe et al, 2001). Some of the slaves brought to Dublin from Bristol were sold to buyers in Ireland, but others ended up in different parts of the world. It will perhaps come as a surprise to some modern readers to learn that English slaves sold in Dublin were at this time being bought by dealers who then took them to Africa
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