Recovering Scotland's slavery past : the Caribbean connection /: the Caribbean connection. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by T.M. Devine.
• Editors: Devine, T. M (Thomas Martin)
• Contents: Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations and Tables; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 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 Centuries8 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; Index
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 260 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 306.3/6209411; Slavery -- Scotland -- History; Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Slavery; Scotland -- History; Caribbean Area; Scotland; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0748698094; 9780748698097; 9781474408813; 1474408818
• Related ISBNs: 0748698086; 147440880X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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