BOUGHT AND SOLD: SCOTLAND JAMAICA AND SLAVERY

Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years and this insightful book takes the reader on a journey to try and understand the relationship from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, also reflecting on the meaning of those years for both nations today. It places the better known history of Scotland’s role in abolition into the context of the black community’s struggle for their freedom and at a time in which the legacy of racial oppression is of great public interest, it also tells the story of how Scotland became an integral part in the perpetuation of slavery.