Recovering Scotland's slavery past : the Caribbean connection / / edited by T.M. Devine [[electronic resource]]
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3/62/09411 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Scotland - History |
| Slavery - Caribbean Area - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Scotland History |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DevineT. M (Thomas Martin) |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Recovering Scotland's slavery past |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-9809-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820165103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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