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
Who resisted and campaigned for abolition?
Oldham Debate: Rochdale and cotton
This video requires Adobe Flash to play. You can install it here.
Details
At the time of the American Civil War 70% of the raw material fuelling Britain's Industrial Revolution was slave-grown cotton from the southern states of America. 16% of all Britain's jobs depended upon the cotton trade.
The pride felt in Rochdale in supporting the abolition of slavery in spite of the great dependency on slave-grown cotton is described.
Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.