Peterloo Commander's Family Fortune Linked to Transatlantic Enslavement

Global Threads research found Hugh Hornby Birley, who led the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry's fatal charge on 60,000 protesters at St Peter's Field on 16 August 1819, came from a family fortune intimately linked with transatlantic enslavement. It places Peterloo's cotton workers and enslaved Africans in the Caribbean in a shared Atlantic history.