Slaves and Highlanders : : Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean / / David Alston.
Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the exploitation of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuriesWe are reprinting! In the meantime, please check your local shop or online.Pays special attention to the new colonies...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of 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