An Evening With Kate Philips
Join Waterstones for a talk by the author of the ground-breaking 'Bought and Sold', the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans... a story we need to own.
About An Evening With Kate Philips
| 26th May 2022 | |
| 7.30pm | |
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Waterstones Byres Road 351-355 Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8AU |
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| This is a free event | |
| Visit the event website here | |
Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain's richest colony and its major slave trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their captives.
Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both nations today.
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