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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Why was cotton so important in north west England?
MOSI event: historian Alan Rice
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An event was held to invite people to discuss the question 'Did slaves build Manchester?'
People put questions to the historian Alan Rice to get his view on how slavery helped shape the cotton industries in Greater Manchester. He draws some analogies between enslavement and the ways of working on the plantations and the conditions in the cotton mills.
Filmed at the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) on 1 March 2008.