Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection

by T.M. Devine

Book Overview

For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.
This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147440880X
• ISBN13: 9781474408806
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"