Cherie Booth visits Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum
CHERIE BOOTH said she was impressed by a Liverpool museum highlighting important slavery issues during a speech at the Albert Dock.
The QC said it was important to her especially, as her granddad was a merchant seaman. As patron of Stop The Traffik, an organisation fighting human trafficking, Ms Booth made a speech at the International Slavery Museum to mark yesterday’s anti-slavery day.
She said: “Whether it’s the chocolate we eat that comes from forced labour or girls working in massage parlours, all these things are happening in the twenty-first century when slavery has supposed to have been abolished.
“Liverpool, which historically is the second city of the empire, has enormous riches in culture and a diverse population. To see it explained in this museum is just fantastic, especially for me, as my grandfather was a merchant seaman on the Elder Dempster Line going from Liverpool to Lagos.”
