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Originally Posted by leigh17
Well i'm also from liverpool as she is so I know the history of the city and its involvement in the slave trade, but the term "off the boaters" comes from there involvement in the slave trade where there ports were used to ship en-slaved africans over to Britan.
Just thought that was abit un 'pc' especially for a show like big brother :/
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I would like you to know that the above is incorrect.
Ships did not bring slaves into Liverpool. Any people of African gene pool were free men in this country.
Ships left Liverpool with goods to trade with arabs in Africa who were running the slavery business. Arabs had previously raided the south coast of England and Eire taking people into slavery and it was part of their heritage.
The Africans were taken in chains to the West Indies in english ships.
The ships then returned to Liverpool carrying sugar and rum.
Slavery was never legal in this country.
Coming off a boat may refer to anyone and in my region it used to be more likely to be referred to someone who had come from Ireland.
Just stepped off a boat refers to someone being naive, that is unfamiliar with the way things work.
In the BB house it might be said about Andrew.