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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The American Civil War and Lancashire cotton workers
Do you know what these objects are, and what the connection was between them?
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- Captain's sword, CSS Alabama, 1864, Touchstones Rochdale
- Cotton famine flour barrel, 1862, Touchstones Rochdale
- Statue of Abraham Lincoln, 1917, by George Grey Barnard