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

The Global Threads research project has revealed how slavery was intricately linked to the struggles of 19th-century Manchester workers. The study found that the profits from enslaved Africans in the Caribbean helped fund the textile industry in Manchester, which was a major employer at the time. This connection has been described as 'hanging like a spectre' over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equality.