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?
Oldham Debate: abolition
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The time over which abolition took place is raised - the Spanish freeing slaves in the 1500s and the points of resistance on religious grounds.
Were protests ineffective?
It is suggested that economics became the imperative factor overriding any moral issues.
Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.