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The Co-op, anti-slavery and the Lancashire cotton famine
NICK MATTHEWS charts the amazing story of how the working people of Manchester helped in the fight against slavery in the American civil war
The first battle of Bull Run, which was the first major battle of the American civil war

IN 2017 the Co-op Group was presented with the Thomson-Reuters Stop Slavery award. 

This was made for its impressive work against modern-day slavery, winning praise for its Bright Futures programme which offers paid employment for slavery and trafficking victims.

I’m not sure if the founders of what had been the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) would have felt about this — pride no doubt that their values where still being upheld but shock that something they had fought against was still going on.

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