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 Mancheste...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/10/study-explores-links-between-19th-century-manchester-workers-and-enslaved-africans-in-caribbean)