Description
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations, tables and maps; Acknowledgements; Standard abbreviation used in the text Foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas Chapter 1 Jumbies Part 1: The African slave trade, the English 'sugar islands', and Scots in the expanding Empire Chapter 2 The slave trade Chapter 3 Jamaica - 'As much gold as will fill a flagon' Chapter 4 The Ceded Islands - Grenada Chapter 5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands Part 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the 'last frontier' of Empire Chapter 6 Guyana - A last frontier Chapter 7 Guyana - Voices of the enslaved Chapter 8 Guyana - The 'free coloured' moment Chapter 9 Guyana - The merchant houses Part 3: Entangled histories - the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland Chapter 10 Northern Scotland - Investments Chapter 11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities Chapter 12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants Chapter 13 Children of colour Part 4: Reckonings Chapter 14 'It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators.' Afterword Ghosts in our blood Index
