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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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No slaves actually came to Liverpool, ships would take goods from Lpool to Africa, unload the goods, load slaves and take them straight to the US, Carribean and other places.
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