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The book notes that after decades of ideological debate, the slave trade ended in 1834, with compensation payments being paid to slave owners. [2] It describes modern racism in Scotland as a legacy of slavery, and it notes the modern tendency for Scottish people to be more comfortable talking about the Scottish role in slavery abolition rather ...
Carta marina by Olaus Magnus, showing many of Scotland's major trading partners. Scotland is shown bottom left. The information about Scotland's domestic and foreign trade during the Middle Ages is limited. In the early Middle Ages the rise of Christianity meant that wine and precious metals were imported for use in religious rites.
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 ...
A new permanent exhibition in Kelvingrove Museum has opened exploring Glasgow's links to slavery.
The slave trade in England was ... (Partially based on Euratlas map of Europe, 1300.) ... British Wales and Gaelic Ireland and Scotland were among the last areas of ...
Map showing the distribution of Pit- place names in Scotland, thought to indicate Pictish settlement. Modern Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but with its many inlets, islands and inland lochs, it has roughly the same amount of coastline at 4,000 miles. Only a fifth of Scotland is less than 60 metres above sea level.
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.
Robert Milligan (19 August 1746 – 21 May 1809) was a Scottish merchant, ship-owner and slave trader who was the driving force behind the construction and initial statutory sectoral monopoly of the West India Docks in London. From 1768 to 1779 Milligan was a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica.