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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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Who resisted and campaigned for abolition?

About these people: A number of high profile people, from Africa and European backgrounds, took up the campaign to bring about an end to slavery.

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  • Olaudah Equiano and abolition

  • William Wilberforce and abolition

  • Frederick Douglass anti-slavery…

  • Thomas Clarkson campaigner for…

  • James Watkins abolitionist

  • Henry Box Brown escape from slavery

  • John Bright and anti-slavery

  • Thomas Walker abolitionist

  • William Wells Brown activist

  • George Caley of Rochdale

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