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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Legacies: Commemorating the bicentenary of British abolition
Oldham Debate: a writer reading
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A writer reads an account of an abduction into slavery and the trade in cloth from the perspective of a grandmother's story in Africa told to her grandchildren who live in Britain.
Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.