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: stereotypes, racism and the civil rights movement
About these objects: These objects from museums and galleries in Bolton, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale show a range of crude stereotypical representations of black people. Other objects, such as the commemorative bust of Paul Robeson, reflect the power of the civil rights campaigners in Britain and America.
