| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : illustrations, map |
|
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations and Tables; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Lost to History; 2 Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature; 3 Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660-1740; 4 The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business; 5 'The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other': Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana; 6 The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. |
|
7 Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries8 Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records; 9 'The Upas Tree, beneath whose pestiferous shade all intellect languishes and all virtue dies': Scottish Public Perceptions of the Slave Trade and Slavery, 1756-1833; 10 'The most unbending Conservative in Britain': Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse; 11 Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Scotland -- History.
|
|
Slavery. |
|
Scotland. |
|
History. |
|
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.
|
|
Caribbean Area. |
|
Scotland -- History.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Author |
Devine, T. M. (Thomas Martin), editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Recovering Scotland's slavery past. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] 9780748698080 (DLC) 2015452751 (OCoLC)907178119 |
| ISBN |
0748698094 (electronic book) |
|
9780748698097 (electronic book) |
|
9781474408813 (electronic book) |
|
1474408818 (electronic book) |
|
0748698086 |
|
147440880X |
|
