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  2. Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery - Wikipedia

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    The book documents the deep extent to which Scottish people were involved in, and profiting from, the Atlantic slave trade, with specific focus on Jamaica. [2] It highlights that Scotland undertook a leading role in slavery in the 18th and early 19th century. [2]

  3. Scottish trade in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The slave trade was also important, with most rural households containing some slaves. [4] Kings are often mentioned raiding for slaves. [ 5 ] A letter of St. Patrick indicates that the Picts were buying slaves from Britons in what is now southern Scotland. [ 6 ]

  4. James Dick (slave trader) - Wikipedia

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    James Dick (c. 1743 – c. 1828) was a Scottish merchant, philanthropist and slave trader.Born in Forres, County of Moray, Dick left Scotland at the age of 19 and travelled to the West Indies, settling down in Kingston, Jamaica as a clerk in a local merchant house.

  5. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville - Wikipedia

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    Sir Tom Devine, whose publications include editing Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), has said that blaming Dundas solely for delay in the abolition of the slave trade ignores the wider political and economic factors that were the true causes of delay. [65]

  6. Slavery in Britain - Wikipedia

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    The squadron's task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa, preventing the slave trade by force of arms, including the interception of slave ships from Europe, the United States, the Barbary pirates, West Africa and the Ottoman Empire. [85] The Church of England was implicated in slavery.

  7. Daniel Campbell (died 1753) - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Campbell (c. 1671 – 1753) was a Scottish merchant, slave trader and politician who sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of Clyde Burghs from 1716 to 1734. He was nicknamed "Great Daniel" due to his weight and personal fortune. [1]

  8. Scipio Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    Grave marker for former slave Scipio Kennedy at Kirkoswald Old Churchyard, Ayrshire, Scotland Scipio Kennedy ( c. 1694 –1774) was a slave who was taken as a child from Guinea in West Africa. After being purchased at the age of five or six by Captain Andrew Douglas of Mains , he worked as a slave under his daughter, Jean , wife of Sir John ...

  9. Tobacco Lords - Wikipedia

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    A portrait of Tobacco Lord John Glassford, his family and servant c. 1767. The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants active during the Georgian era who made substantial sums of money via their participation in the triangular trade, primarily through dealing in slave-produced tobacco that was grown in the Thirteen Colonies.