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: cotton workers and indenture
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The conditions facing workers in the cotton industry, including those who came to Greater Manchester from the Caribbean and Asia, are discussed.
Indentured labour of British people transported to the Caribbean in the 1650s is also debated - and the term 'red legs'.
Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.