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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British Slave Trader
One of the many European slave traders who dealt with enslaved Africans and exchange goods. The scenes show how traders operated within the triangular trade route between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Even after the British slave trade was abolished in 1807, many traders carried on enslaving Africans illegally.