Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean

"Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean." Slavery & Abolition, 44(4), pp. 817–818

Notes

1 Gary Younge, ‘Lest We Remember: How Britain Buried Its Memory of Slavery’, March 29, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/29/lest-we-remember-how-britain-buried-its-history-of-slavery.

2 https://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp.

3 Silenced Histories: Scotland and the Caribbean, David Alston and Juanita Cox, organized by the National Library of Scotland, 4 November 2021.

4 Former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP calls for a Museum to ‘bust nationalist myth’ over empire. In this way, current slavery research may be used opportunistically for party-political point-scoring, as larger British imperial ideologies apparently need no busting. ‘Slavery museum needed to ‘bust nationalist myth’ denying Scotland’s role, says MSP’, The Times, September 24, 2023.