Trade Roots
Michael Buerk investigates the ties of key British institutions to the slave trade
Trade Roots - Banking and Finance
Michael discusses two banking families with intimate connections to slavery.
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Trade Roots - Episode 1
Michael Buerk hosts a series investigating the ties of a number of key British institutions to the slave trade. He is accompanied by Professor James Walvin. 1/3. Arts and Culture.
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Trade Roots - Manufacturing and Industry
Michael visits Manchester and Birmingham to find out how these cities owe their nineteenth-century prosperity both to slavery and to a growing market for their products in Africa.
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