Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Tables vii
4. The Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Foreword xiii
7. Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery 1
8. 1. Lost to History 21
9. 2. Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature 41
10. 3. Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660–1740 62
11. 4. The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business 82
12. 5. ‘The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other’: Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana 99
13. 6. The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. 124
14. 7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 145
15. 8. Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records 166
16. 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
17. 10. ‘The most unbending Conservative in Britain’: Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse 206
18. 11. Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited 225
19. Conclusion: History, Scotland and Slavery 246
20. Index 252