Greed, romance and the fortunes of war are woven through the lives of Liverpool traders, in the dying days of the slave trade.
'Every stone of whose streets, every brick of whose houses, every block of whose docks, is grouted and cemented together by the blood and marrow of the sold and murdered African.’
So said George Frederick Cooke, 1807, when speaking of Liverpool, the largest slave trading port in Europe
'Ice King', a story set in Liverpool during the dying days of the African slave trade. Generational change, moral wickedness, greed, romance are woven through the lives of King & Son, Liverpool traders.
Father and son, are caught up in the turmoil that preceded the implementation of the British Trade Act of 1807. This Act marked the end of Britain’s involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. 'Ice King' focuses on the problems that this Act threatened, if given Royal Assent, to those in Liverpool who took part in the Trade.