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Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the exploitation of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuriesWe are reprinting! In the meantime, please check your local shop or online.Pays special attention to the new colonies of the southern Caribbean, including Grenada and Guyana, and to Suriname in the years to 1863Contributes to the debate on reparation by reappraising the idea of Scots complicity in the slave tradeIncludes a short foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas, co-founders of Guyana Speaks, an organisation for the Guyanese diaspora in LondonScots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana, some reluctantly but many with enthusiasm and without remorse. Their voices are clearly heard in the archives, while in the same sources their victims' stories are silenced – reduced to numbers and listed as property. David Alston gives voice not only to these Scots but to enslaved Africans and their descendants – to those who reclaimed their freedom, to free women of colour, to the Black Caribs of St Vincent, to house servants, and to children of mixed race who found themselves in the increasingly racist society of Britain in the mid-1800s.As Scots recover and grapple with their past, this vital history lays bare the enormous wealth generated in the Highlands by slavery and emancipation compensation schemes. This legacy, entwined with so many of our contemporary institutions, must be reckoned with

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery -- 1. Lost to History -- 2. Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature -- 3. Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660-1740 -- 4. The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business -- 5. 'The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other': Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana -- 6. The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. -- 7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 8. Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records -- 9. 'The Upas Tree, beneath whose pestiferous shade all intellect languishes and all virtue dies': Scottish Public Perceptions of the Slave Trade and Slavery, 1756-1833 -- 10. 'The most unbending Conservative in Britain': Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse -- 11. Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited -- Conclusion: History, Scotland and Slavery -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- A Tribute to Sir Tom Devine -- Introduction Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600 -- 'As Hewers of Wood, and Drawers of Water'? Scotland as an Emigrant Nation, c. 1600 to c. 1800 -- 'You Have Only Seen the Fortunate Few and Draw Your Conclusion Accordingly': Behavioural Economics and the Paradox of Scottish Emigration -- Scottish Diasporas and Africa -- 'Have the Scotch no Claim upon the Cherokees?' Scots, Indians and Scots Indians in the American South -- Conflicts of Interest, Crises of Conscience: Scots and Aboriginal People in Eastern Australia, 1830s-1861 -- The Importance of Scottish Origins in the Nineteenth Century: James Taylor and Ceylon Tea -- 'Our Old World Diff'rences are Dead': The Scottish Migrant Military Tradition in the British Dominions during the First World War -- 'Part of my Heritage': Ladies' Pipe Bands, Associational Culture and 'Homeland' Identities in the Scottish Diaspora -- Understanding Scottishness among Sojourners, Settlers and Descendants in Hong Kong and New Zealand -- Encountering an Imaginary Heritage: Roots Tourism and the Scottish Diaspora -- Home is where the Heart is: Affinity Scots in the Scottish Diaspora -- What Scottish Diaspora? -- Afterword -- Index