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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Oldham Debate:a local historian
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A local historian talks about evidence of slavery in the region. She also introduces Karl Marx's references to Oldham, and his presentation of slavery as a system. He compares the working class in Britain to the enslaved workers on the plantations.
Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.