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- 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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MOSI event: Rice on Henry Box Brown
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An event was held to invite people to discuss the question 'Did slaves build Manchester?'
Historian Alan Rice talks about the way Henry Box Brown escaped from slavery by being posted in a box.
Filmed at the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) on 1 March 2008.