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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Mill Worker
A worker from one of the many cotton mills in and around Greater Manchester. In the 1850s there were 108 mills in Manchester – the main form of employment.
Working conditions were poor and child labour was common. Greater Manchester depended on slave-grown cotton from the USA to keep its textile industries running.