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Location: The Round, The Dukes – Moor Lane, Lancaster LA1 1QE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By 1750, every trading and manufacturing town in England had connections to plantation slavery, and the profits from slavery and colonialism were a major source of the capital that financed the Industrial Revolution that transformed England into a modern capitalist state. In eighteenth-century Lancaster, merchants developed extensive commercial networks in the West Indies and Americas, importing slave-produced plantation goods, such as mahogany and exotic woods, sugar, spices, coffee and raw cotton, and exporting fine furniture, gunpowder, spun cotton and felt. Until recently, local and regional histories have tended to obscure the ways in which the lives of working people within England were impacted\/shaped by what historian Catherine Hall terms \u2018the slavery business\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through a focus on five commodities produced in Lancaster and the surrounding area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this panel and discussion will bring to light some of the ways in which slavery and colonialism transformed the local economy and the lives of working people. It will include talks by James Fox on felt hats, Alan Rice on cotton, Bella Tyler on slave ships, Gordon Walker and Bront\u00eb Crawford on furniture, and Alanah Hill on sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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