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Slaves and highlanders : silenced histories of Scotland and the Caribbean / David Alston.
LIBRA HT1162 .A478 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alston, David, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Scotland--Highlands--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.
- Slavery--Social aspects.
- Slave trade.
- History.
- Caribbean Area.
- Slave trade--Scotland--Highlands--History.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Great Britain--Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- British colonies.
- Scotland--Highlands.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana, some reluctantly but many with enthusiasm and without remorse. Their voices are clearly heard in the archives, while in the same sources their victims? stories are silenced ? reduced to numbers and listed as property.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Jumbies
- pt. 1 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, THE ENGLISH `SUGAR ISLANDS' AND SCOTS IN THE EXPANDING EMPIRE
- 2. The Slave Trade
- 3. Jamaica
- `As much gold as will fill a flagon'
- 4. The Ceded Islands
- Grenada
- 5. A Family of Highland Carpenters in the Ceded Islands
- pt. 2 NORTHERN SCOTS IN GUYANA ON THE `LAST FRONTIER' OF EMPIRE
- 6. Guyana
- A Last Frontier
- 7. Guyana
- Voices of the Enslaved
- 8. Guyana
- The `Free Coloured' Moment
- 9. Guyana
- The Merchant Houses
- pt. 3 ENTANGLED HISTORIES
- THE LEGACIES OF SLAVERY IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND
- 10. Northern Scotland
- Investments
- 11. Landowners, Caribbean Wealth and Highland Identities
- 12. Enslaved Blacks and Black Servants
- 13. Children of Colour
- pt. 4 RECKONINGS
- 14. `It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators'.
- Notes:
- Foreword by Juanita Cox-Westmaas and Rod Westmaas.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-365) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781474427302
- 1474427308
- 9781474427319
- 1474427316
- OCLC:
- 1264399521
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