Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700 / / Julie Orr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Orr, Julie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

The history of a seventeenth-century Scottish trading colony on the Gulf of DarienThis book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative. It broadens what we know about the Company of Scotland beyond British history and into its rightful place in the saga of the multinational, tumultuous seventeenth-century Atlantic world.Julie Orr offers an in-depth analysis of the complex sociopolitics into which the Scots recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien for settlement. Entanglement with slave-trading interests; the trial of five expedition participants in Spain; the dispatch of Admiral Benbow to the Caribbean with offers of assistance to Spanish governors; the activities of the Scottish spy Walter Herries; and the unintended diaspora of deserters, prisoners and survivors – all are afforded their rightful place in the story of Scotland’s attempt to establish a trading colony on the isthmus of Panama.Key FeaturesAnalyses the international complicity to undermine the establishment of New CaledoniaPresents the complex, tumultuous sociopolitics into which the Scots recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien as the site of their settlementTells the story of the 1700 trial in Seville of 5 Darien survivorsInvestigates deserters, prisoners and survivors in the creation of an unintended diaspora

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Note on Dates -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Unintended Itineraries I: Desertion, Opportunity and a Spy -- 3 Unintended Itineraries II: Prisoners -- 4 Admirals, Governors and Slave Traders -- 5 The Long Reach of Spanish Justice -- 6 The View from Spanish America -- 7 The View from Disparate America -- 8 Darien Consequences -- Appendix I Caledonia: The Declaration of the Council Constituted by the Indian and African Company of Scotland, for the Government and Direction of their Colonies and Settlements in the Indies -- Appendix II Articles of Agreement betwixt the Council of Caledonia and Captain Ephraim Pilkingtoun -- Bibliography -- Index