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
Sailor death rates
This video requires Adobe Flash to play. You can install it here.
Details
The historian Alan Rice talks about the death rates among sailors on the slaving ships as part of the process of capturing and transporting enslaved Africans to transport them across the Atlantic.
'Slavery: What's it got to do with us?' event. Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.