Illustration (personal photograph): Modern-day view of the Albert Dock in Liverpool, completed in 1846. Port innovation in England’s largest—and the world’s third largest—slave trading port. It was the first building made of cast iron, brick, and stone, with no wooden framework, and was used to house colonial products. The system of docks was invented in Liverpool in the mid-eighteenth century in conjunction with its rise as a slave trading and colonial port.
