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David Alston Slaves and Highlanders (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Slaves and Highlanders : Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
- Publication Name
- Slaves and Highlanders
- Title
- Slaves and Highlanders
- Subtitle
- Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
- Contributor
- Rod Westmaas (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781474427319
- ISBN
- 9781474427319
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Release Date
- 31/10/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 213mm
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 476g
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Topic
- Slavery, Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-10
1474427316
ISBN-13
9781474427319
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050380362
Product Key Features
Book Title
Slaves and Highlanders : Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ht1162
Reviews
David Alston's Slaves and Highlanders is necessary reading for our time, with the racial reckoning in global headlines resting on an honest reckoning with history. Alston illuminates the Scottish role in slavery, the slave trade and empire in the Caribbean with a moral commitment to the 'half glimpsed figures' at its margins. This is microhistory at its best, for it conscientiously excavates individual lives in the Highlands to reveal how those lives were intimately connected to the fates of forgotten others in the colonized world. Alston's ethics in telling the full truth is matched by a prose style that is evocative and lucid, with an excellent eye for humanizing detail.
Table of Content
List of illustrations, tables and maps; Acknowledgements; Standard abbreviation used in the text; Foreword; 1 Jumbies; Part 1: The African slave trade, the English 'sugar islands', and Scots in the expanding Empire; Introduction; 2 The slave trade; 3 Jamaica - 'As much gold as will fill a flagon'; 4 The Ceded Islands - Grenada; 5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands; Part 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the 'last frontier' of Empire; Introduction; 6 Guyana - A last frontier; 7 Guyana - Voices of the enslaved; 8 Guyana - The 'free coloured' moment; 9 Guyana - The merchant houses; Part 3: Entangled histories - the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland; Introduction; 10 Northern Scotland - Investments; 11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities; 12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants; 13 Children of colour; Part 4: 14 'It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators'; Afterword: Ghosts in our blood; Index.
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
306.362094115
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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