Slaves and Highlanders - Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean (Hardcover)

Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana, some reluctantly but many with enthusiasm and without remorse. Their voices are clearly heard in the archives, while in the same sources their victims' stories are silenced reduced to numbers and listed as property. David Alston gives voice not only to these Scots but to enslaved Africans and their descendants to those who reclaimed their freedom, to free women of colour, to the Black Caribs of St Vincent, to house servants, and to children of mixed race who found themselves in the increasingly racist society of Britain in the mid-1800s.As Scots recover and grapple with their past, this vital history lays bare the enormous wealth generated in the Highlands by slavery and emancipation compensation schemes. This legacy, entwined with so many of our contemporary institutions, must be reckoned with. David Alston was one of the first Scottish historians to address the issue of Scotland's involvement with slavery. As a freelance historian and author, he has dedicated the past 20 years to researching the role of northern Scots in the slave-worked plantations of the Caribbean, especially Guyana.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	David Alston
Foreword by:	Juanita Cox-Westmaas • Rod Westmaas
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-2730-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > American history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-4744-2730-8
Barcode:	9781474427302

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