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?
'What's it got to do with us?' Tour 2
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David Pugh a museum curator at Rochdale talks about the American Civil War and the Lancashire cotton famine. He describes the cotton famine flour barrel sent to feed starving cotton workers in the north west of England that is on display in the exhibition.
'Slavery: What's it got to do with us?' event. Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.