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How much did Manchester profit from slavery? Have your say

Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery

A partnership project from eight museums in Greater Manchester

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

Global

  • Africa and the workings of the slave trade
  • Colonialism and the expansion of empires
  • Stereotypes, racism and civil rights

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  • Home
  • About us
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  • 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
  • Global
    • Africa and the workings of the slave trade
    • Colonialism and the expansion of empires
    • Stereotypes, racism and civil rights
  • Key Stage 3 & 4
    • Africa and the transatlantic slave trade
    • Cotton and transatlantic slavery
    • Local cotton industries in Greater Manchester
    • The American Civil War and Lancashire cotton workers
    • Freedom and human rights
    • Campaigning for the abolition of slavery
    • After abolition
    • Legacies of transatlantic slavery: racism in Manchester
  • Video Drama
    • African Slave Trader
    • Thomas Clarkson
    • British Slave Trader
    • James Watkins
    • Mill Worker
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