In Greater Manchester
- How money from slavery made Greater Manchester
- The importance of cotton in north west England
- The Lancashire cotton famine
- Smoking, drinking and the British sweet tooth
- Black presence in Britain and north west England
- Resistance and campaigns for abolition
- The bicentenary of British abolition
Global
Africa, the arrival of Europeans and the transatlantic slave trade
About these places: African goods such as palm oil, metals, minerals and wood were imported into Britain during and after the transatlantic slave trade. This warehouse in Manchester uses a tropical hardwood, African oak, for the loading bays. Other tropical hardwoods such as mahogany were often used for museum display cases.