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
Legacies: stereotypes, racism and the civil rights movement
MOSI event: Lemn Sissay poetry readings
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An event was held to invite people to discuss the question 'Did slaves build Manchester?'
The writer and poet Lemn Sissay is introduced by Pete Kalu. Lemn reads his works that relate to the history of the slave trade and slavery including the powerful poem 'Pass it on'.
Filmed at the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) on 1 March 2008.