This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made
money from buying and selling humans... a story we need to own. We
need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in
slavery. Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and
settlement in Jamaica, Britain's richest colony and its major slave
trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked
there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish
plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance
brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica
and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and
parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic
Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their
captives. Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one
hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its
early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the
British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both
nations today.
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