For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's
connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and
shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the
English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw
itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery
past. This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these
beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field, with
findings based on sustained archival research, the volume
systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the
traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number
of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia
and slavery, the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots
in the Caribbean sugar islands, compensation paid to Scottish
owners when slavery was abolished, domestic controversies on the
slave trade, the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports
and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish
history, to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history
of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not
only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in
discovering an untold aspect of Scotland's past.
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