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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James Watkins
James Watkins was born enslaved on the Ensor plantation in Baltimore, America.
After escaping from slavery Watkins came to England and became a lecturer and a campaigner against slavery. The scenes show part of one of his speeches in Greater Manchester in 1862.