• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past : The Caribbean Connection
  • Contributor: Devine, Tom M [VerfasserIn]; Alston, David [MitwirkendeR]; Devine, T. M [MitwirkendeR]; Devine, Tom [MitwirkendeR]; Draper, Nicholas [MitwirkendeR]; Graham, Eric J [MitwirkendeR]; Hall, Catherine [MitwirkendeR]; Morgan, Philip D [MitwirkendeR]; Morris, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Mullen, Stephen [MitwirkendeR]; Nisbet, Stuart M [MitwirkendeR]; Schwarz, Suzanne [MitwirkendeR]; Whyte, Iain [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
    [Online-Ausgabe]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p); 3 B/W illustrations 8 B/W tables 2 B/W line art
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780748698097
  • ISBN: 9780748698097
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  • Keywords: HISTORY / Europe / Western
  • Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
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  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery -- 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 Centuries -- 8. 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: History, Scotland and Slavery -- Index

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