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Life in Liverpool
early 1780s - 1790
The Knipe family relocated again to Liverpool sometime in the early 1780s. Eliza remained active as a writer and occasionally contributed pieces for local theater productions.
The main export from Liverpool at the time was salt, but the port was also heavily involved in the slave trade. Parliament member William Roscoe was at the forefront of the growing anti-slavery faction in Liverpool. Eliza befriended Roscoe and attended his public lectures. He was a founding member of the Liverpool Abolitionist Society in 1787. That same year, Eliza published an anti-slavery short story entitled “Atomboka and Omaza: An African Story."