Slaves and Highlanders : silenced histories of Scotland and the Caribbean / David Alston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alston, David, 1952- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Scotland--Highlands--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.

Slave trade--Scotland--Highlands--History.

Slave trade.

Enslaved persons--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Social aspects.

Great Britain--Colonies.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This text explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Tables and Maps

Standard Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 Jumbies

PART 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

PART 2 Northern Scots in Guyana on the ‘Last Frontier’ of Empire

INTRODUCTION

6 Guyana– A Last Frontier

7 Guyana– Voices of the Enslaved

8 Guyana– The ‘Free Coloured’ Moment

9 Guyana– The Merchant Houses

PART 3 Entangled Histories– 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

PART 4 Reckonings

14 ‘It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators’

Afterword Ghosts in our Blood

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2733-2

1-3995-0981-0

1-4744-2732-4

OCLC:

1312726296