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Autore |
Devine Tom M. |
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Titolo |
Recovering Scotland's slavery past : the Caribbean connection / / edited by T.M. Devine [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Scotland - History |
Slavery - Caribbean Area - History |
Scotland History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first ever book-length attempt to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland's slavery past. Written to appeal to a wide audience, it contains many original ,surprising and uncomfortable conclusions. |
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