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
African death rates
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The historian Alan Rice talks about the death rates among enslaved Africans as part of the process of capture and transportation over the course of history.
'Slavery: What's it got to do with us?' event. Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.