Peterloo massacre

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

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Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equalityThey were the killings that changed Britain, paving the way for working-class people’s right to vote, as well…