RECOVERING SCOTLAND'S SLAVERY PAST by Tom M. Devine (Editor) ( 9780748698080 )

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RECOVERING SCOTLAND'S SLAVERY PAST
THE CARIBBEAN CONNECTION

By:

Tom M. Devine (Editor)

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0748698086

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9780748698080

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Publisher:

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 March, 2015

Pages:

280

Synopsis:

For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field, with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia and slavery, the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots in the Caribbean sugar islands, compensation paid to Scottish owners when slavery was abolished, domestic controversies on the slave trade, the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish history, to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in discovering an untold aspect of Scotland's past.

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