Calls for Manchester United and Manchester City to overhaul their club badges over alleged 'slavery links' have been met with outrage
A journalist for the Guardian newspaper said the two cross-town rivals should rethink their badges because they represented Manchester's involvement with the slave-driven cotton trade, which hugely enriched the city in the industrial revolution.
But fans, politicians and historians have pushed back, pointing at Manchester's history of radicalism and arguing that the claims were "making a mountain out of a molehill".Graham Stringer, the Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton, hit back at the article, saying: 'Manchester had nothing to do with the slave trade. People from the city at the time of the US Civil War in 1861 protested against slavery. This is one of the craziest campaigns I have ever seen.
"Slavery was a cruel thing, with countless numbers suffering one way or the other, there can be no denying that, but the cotton fields part of it is a thing of the past.
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