Liverpool offered opportunities in trading goods such as cotton, sugar, tobacco, along with other vital goods but what drove economic success was the adoption of the slave trade. The city became a rapid success and looked at as, an economic powerhouse, valued for its ability to adopt “policy of cutting down expenses to the bare minimum”, allowing for high profit and exploitation of the working class (Williams, 68). “It was the slave trade which raised Liverpool from a struggling port to one of the richest and most prosperous trading centers of the world” (Williams, 68).

Large gothic cathedrals and castles are often the backdrop to popular gothic novels of the time. Interestingly enough, these structures were not built during the gothic period, and were not referred to as "gothic" at the time of Contruction. They were built hundreds of years prior to the popular surge of gothic literature and were referred to as being built in the "modern style." When I think of a gothic castle, I think of a dark and gloomy place. The architecture, however, came with different intent.