... out and about around the Merchant City in Glasgow. These merchants (who still have streets named after them - Buchanan St for example) traded in goods like cotton, sugar and tobacco, from plantations in the Caribbean (more street names - Kingston Bridge, Virginia Street - well known in Glasgow), using slaves from Africa as their workforce. Imagine it - exploiting humans, in terrible conditions, in far flung places, all for the sake of supplying the public's demand for cheap goods... wouldn't happen today, right?
Here's the central BBC site commemorating the abolition of the slave trade. Our site, for schools in Scotland, is going live at the beginning of May, with the TV programmes broadcast sometime in the Autumn. I'll be reminding you to set your videos nearer the time...
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