The music of King Cotton - 'On My Way'

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Laurence Westgaph, Merseyside Historian

Laurence Westgaph is an historian from Merseyside who is an authority on the origins, development and effects of the cotton industry in the North West and of the slave trade that facilitated it.

Here, Laurence talks about why King Cotton is a story with ongoing resonance for the region, and for Manchester and Liverpool in particular.