Synopsis
David Olusoga investigates the end of the slave trade in Bristol.
- Programme: A House Through Time
- Series: 3
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2020
- History | The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770-1807 | The Atlantic Slave Trade | The abolitionist campaigns
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