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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Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846
Thomas Clarkson campaigned through most of his life against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.
In 1787 he co- founded the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The scenes show excerpts of Clarkson's speeches made in Manchester, and filmed in the Cathedral.