Since statues are a thing, we spent a little time on this way back in my northern comp school-days. There's a slight even more topical angle..
This is Richard Oastler, who campaigned against child labour during the Industrial Revolution.

AKA "Yorkshire Slavery"

At one point during his campaign, he gave evidence to a select committee...
"On one occasion I was very singularly placed; I was in the company of a West India slave master and three Bradford spinners; they brought the two systems into fair comparison, and the spinners were obliged to be silent when the slave-owner said...."
'Well, I have always thought myself disgraced by being the owner of black slaves, but we never, in the West Indies thought it was possible for any human being to be so cruel as to require a child of 9 years old to work 12½ hours a day;..'
Excerpt is from here:

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/factmine/oastler.htm
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