“全球线索”（Global Threads）研究项目揭示了奴隶制如何像“幽灵”一样笼罩在彼得卢大屠杀及其他曼彻斯特争取平等的斗争之上。
这些杀戮改变了英国，为工人阶级争取投票权铺平了道路，并促成了《曼彻斯特卫报》的创立。
Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equality They were the killings that changed Britain, paving the way for working-class people’s right to vote, as well as leading to the founding of the Manchester Guardian.
在1819年的彼得卢大屠杀中，曼彻斯特和索尔福德义勇骑兵队在圣彼得广场射杀并践踏了和平抗议者。
In the Peterloo massacre of 1819, peaceful protesters were shot and trampled to death by the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry at St Peter’s Field in the city.
公共历史项目“全球线索”的一项研究考察了加勒比地区被奴役的非洲人的剥削与彼得卢棉纺工人的斗争之间是如何联系在一起的。
A study by Global Threads, a public history project, has examined how the exploitation of Africans enslaved in the Caribbean was linked with the struggles of cotton workers at Peterloo.
正如当时伦敦的黑人废奴主义者罗伯特·韦德伯恩所言，尽管这些工人相隔数千里，生活轨迹各异，但他们却受到同一股力量的剥削。
Though these workers were divided by thousands of miles and led different lives, they were exploited by the same forces – as Robert Wedderburn, a Black abolitionist in London, said at the time.