Ben Shaw - The Slave Trader: The Story of Bryan Blundell ...with TRE's Giles Brown

While investigating a 1595 Geneva “Breeches” Bible that had been passed down through my family, I unexpectedly discovered that I was descended from Bryan Blundell, an eighteenth-century Liverpool mariner, merchant, philanthropist and slave trader. That discovery led to several years of research and, ultimately, to the first full biography of Blundell, The Slave Trader: The Story of Bryan Blundell, published by Pen & Sword History

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