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
Powerhouse event group discussion 5
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A group of people look at different aspects of slavery through a selection of museum objects. They discuss the changes in textile manufacture and the inherent difficulties of fair trade in the face of economic factors.
They talk about personal family links to people in Jamaica who were born at around the time of the slave trade.
Filmed at the Powerhouse Centre on 27 March 2008.