Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past
Title | Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past PDF eBook |
Author | Tom M. Devine |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2015-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0748698094 |
The first ever book-length attempt to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland's slavery past. Written to appeal to a wide audience, it contains many original ,surprising and uncomfortable conclusions.
Slaves and Highlanders
Title | Slaves and Highlanders PDF eBook |
Author | David Alston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781474427319 |
Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820
Title | Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820 PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Hamilton |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847796338 |
This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, ‘across th’ Atlantic roar’. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of ‘improvement’. The book highlights the Scots’ reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British nation and the Atlantic World.
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833
Title | Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morris |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2015-03-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131767586X |
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural development, and draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland’s national narratives of identity. Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Scottish writers are re-examined in this new light. Morris explores the ways that discourses of "improvement" in both Scotland and the Caribbean are mediated by the modes of pastoral and georgic which struggle to explain and contain the labour conditions of agricultural labourers, both free and enslaved. The ambivalent relationship of Scottish writers, including Robert Burns, to questions around abolition allows fresh perspectives on the era. Furthermore, Morris considers the origins of a hybrid Scottish-Creole identity through two nineteenth-century figures - Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. The final chapter moves forward to consider the implications for post-devolution (post-referendum) Scotland. Underpinning this investigation is the conviction that collective memory is a key feature which shapes behaviour and beliefs in the present; the recovery of the memory of slavery is performed here in the interests of social justice in the present.
Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery
Title | Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Donington |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1781383553 |
This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals and families, regional identity narratives, sites of memory and forgetting, and the financial, architectural and social legacies of slave-ownership.
It Wisnae Us
Title | It Wisnae Us PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Mullen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Buildings |
ISBN | 9781873190623 |
Slave Captain
Title | Slave Captain PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Schwarz |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1846310679 |
One of the very few firsthand accounts written by a Liverpool slave ship captain to have survived, this unique and fascinating primary source navigates the reader through the remarkable story of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship captain who was shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco and subsequently enslaved. Schwarz skillfully supplements Irving’s personal journal and letters with useful notes, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in the relationship between the slave trade and the British Empire. Slave Captain is a compelling narrative that will be welcomed by the general reader and scholars alike.