Publication
Edinburgh University Press (2021), 224 pages
ISBN
1474427316 / 9781474427319
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas　
1 Jumbies
PART 1: The African slave trade, the English ‘sugar islands’, and Scots in the expanding Empire
2 The slave trade
3 Jamaica – ‘As much gold as will fill a flagon’
4 The Ceded Islands – Grenada
5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands
　
PART 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the ‘last frontier’ of Empire
6 Guyana – A last frontier
7 Guyana – Voices of the enslaved
8 Guyana – The ‘free coloured’ moment
9 Guyana – The merchant houses
　
PART 3: Entangled histories – the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland
10 Northern Scotland – Investments
11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities
12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants
13 Children of colour
　
PART 4: Reckonings
14 ‘It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators.’
Afterword Ghosts in our blood
Index
Foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas　
1 Jumbies
PART 1: The African slave trade, the English ‘sugar islands’, and Scots in the expanding Empire
2 The slave trade
3 Jamaica – ‘As much gold as will fill a flagon’
4 The Ceded Islands – Grenada
5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands
　
PART 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the ‘last frontier’ of Empire
6 Guyana – A last frontier
7 Guyana – Voices of the enslaved
8 Guyana – The ‘free coloured’ moment
9 Guyana – The merchant houses
　
PART 3: Entangled histories – the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland
10 Northern Scotland – Investments
11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities
12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants
13 Children of colour
　
PART 4: Reckonings
14 ‘It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators.’
Afterword Ghosts in our blood
Index