Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20200707:04:49:00
A past we all can embrace? i am a proud northerner, born in bolton, of jamaican heritage. but it could be argued bristol is the place where i came of age, where i got my first job injournalism, the only career i've ever known. like many west indians and their descendants living in the uk, my lineage stretches back to africa and the trade in human bondage involving ports like bristol. ships loaded with goods would sailfrom here down to west africa. they'd then be exchanged for slaves. that human cargo would go across the atlantic to the caribbean. there, they'd be exchanged for cotton and sugar...