Study explores links between 19th-century Manchester workers and enslaved Africans in Caribbean

October 10, 2026 · 12:00 pm 1 sources

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• Study explores links between 19th-century Manchester workers and enslaved Africans in Caribbean
  The Guardian · October 10, 2026 12:00
  Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equality They were the killings that changed Britain, paving the way for working-class people’s right to vote, as well as leading to the founding of the Manchester…