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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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.
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