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Scots 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. David Alston was one of the first Scottish historians to address the issue of Scotland's involvement with slavery. As a freelance historian and author, he has dedicated the past 20 years to researching the role of northern Scots in the slave-worked plantations of the Caribbean, especially Guyana.
Contents
List of illustrations, tables and maps; Acknowledgements; Standard abbreviation used in the text
Foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas
Chapter 1 Jumbies
Part 1: The African slave trade, the English 'sugar islands', and Scots in the expanding Empire
Chapter 2 The slave trade
Chapter 3 Jamaica - 'As much gold as will fill a flagon'
Chapter 4 The Ceded Islands - Grenada
Chapter 5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands
Part 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the 'last frontier' of Empire
Chapter 6 Guyana - A last frontier
Chapter 7 Guyana - Voices of the enslaved
Chapter 8 Guyana - The 'free coloured' moment
Chapter 9 Guyana - The merchant houses
Part 3: Entangled histories - the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland
Chapter 10 Northern Scotland - Investments
Chapter 11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities
Chapter 12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants
Chapter 13 Children of colour
Part 4: Reckonings
Chapter 14 'It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators.'
Afterword Ghosts in our blood
Index
