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
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Africa, the arrival of Europeans and the transatlantic slave trade
Washington Alcott: Rochdale Canal
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Washington Alcott talks about the Rochdale Canal which was built between 1794 and 1804.
Read an article about the Rochdale Canal and its links to the development of the transatlantic slave trade and the growth of the cotton industry in Greater Manchester.