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A gripping insight into many Scots who ventured forth in a trade harsher than fiction but no less colourful,' - Scots Magazine Seawolves is an exciting and thorough examination of Scots connected to piracy, whether they are victims or villains, real or literary. Concentrating mainly on the legendary golden age of pirates - 1690 to 1710 - when pirate vessels not only menaced the waters of the East and West Indies, but even threatened the northern islands of Scotland. During this time, many Scots left hard lives in places like Aberdeen, Stornoway and Orkney to find fame, fortune and adventure o

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