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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 ...
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 ]
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.
A new permanent exhibition in Kelvingrove Museum has opened exploring Glasgow's links to slavery.
The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760–1810 (1975) Chakravarty, Urvashi (2022). Fictions of Consent. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9826-0. Devine, Tom M. Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past. (Edinburgh U, 2015). Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British slavery in the era of abolition (U of North Carolina Press ...
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.
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]
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.