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7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations and Tables vii
- The Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Foreword xiii
- Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery 1
- 1. Lost to History 21
- 2. Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature 41
- 3. Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660–1740 62
- 4. The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business 82
- 5. ‘The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other’: Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana 99
- 6. The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. 124
- 7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 145
- 8. Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records 166
- 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 187
- 10. ‘The most unbending Conservative in Britain’: Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse 206
- 11. Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited 225
- Conclusion: History, Scotland and Slavery 246
- Index 252
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations and Tables vii
- The Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Foreword xiii
- Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery 1
- 1. Lost to History 21
- 2. Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature 41
- 3. Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660–1740 62
- 4. The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business 82
- 5. ‘The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other’: Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana 99
- 6. The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. 124
- 7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 145
- 8. Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records 166
- 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 187
- 10. ‘The most unbending Conservative in Britain’: Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse 206
- 11. Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited 225
- Conclusion: History, Scotland and Slavery 246
- Index 252