KS 3 & 4 themes
- Africa and the transatlantic slave trade
- Cotton and transatlantic slavery
- Local cotton industries in Greater Manchester
- The American Civil War and Lancashire cotton workers
- Freedom and human rights
- Campaigning for the abolition of slavery
- After abolition
- Legacies of transatlantic slavery: racism in Manchester
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Cotton and transatlantic slavery
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Do you know what these objects are, and what the connection was between them?
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- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830, Museum of Science & Industry
- Two cotton cops, 1735, 1885, Gallery Oldham
- Union patriotic envelope, 1861, Museum of Science and Industry