Slaves and Highlanders
Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2021
400 pages
978-1-4744-2732-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Maps
- Standard Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- 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
- 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
