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Author Whyte, Iain

Title Scotland and the abolition of black slavery, 1756-1838 / Iain Whyte
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Cover -- COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 BLACK SLAVES IN SCOTLAND AND BAPTISM -- 2 THE LORDS AND THE PROFITS -- WEST INDIAN COMMERCE AND THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT -- 3 PULPITS, PRESBYTERIES AND PETITIONS ON THE TRADE -- 4 LONDON SCOTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION -- 5 UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN EUROPE AND SCOTS COUNTERVOICES ON EMANCIPATION -- 6 COMING OUT OF SIN -- THE ROAD FROM MITIGATION TO THE CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ABOLITION -- 7 EVANGELISM IN JAMAICA, THEOLOGY IN SCOTLAND, BUT FREEDOM DEFERRED -- 8 EYES ON THE PRIZE -- FOCUS, FAITH AND FERVOUR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Last Page
Summary Although much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedom in Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838. Contemporary documents and periodicals reveal a groundswell of revulsion to what was described as the horrible traffik in humans". Petitions to Parliament came from remote islands in Shetland as well as from large public meetings in cities. In a land steeped in religion, ministers and church leaders took the lead in giving theological support to the cause of abolition. The contributions of five London Scots who were pivotal to the campaign throughout Britain are set against opposition to abolition from many Scots with commercial interests in the slave trade and the sugar plantations. Missionaries and miners, trades guilds and lawyers all played their parts in challenging slavery. Many of their struggles and frustrations are detailed for the first time in an assessment of the unique contribution made by Scotland and the Scots to the destruction of an institution whose effects are still with us today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Antislavery movements -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Antislavery movements -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Public opinion -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Public opinion -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Slavery and the church -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Slavery and the church -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Scotland -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century
Slavery -- Scotland -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements
Public opinion
Slavery and the church
Slavery -- Public opinion
Abolitionismus
Scotland
Schottland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006389736
ISBN 0748626999
9780748626991
1280538465
9781280538469
9780748672196
0748672192