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Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : John D. O. Fulton
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment written by John D. O. Fulton and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the evil nature of slavery become enshrined in law in Great Britain? What drove the change in public perception? What were the key victories on the journey to abolition and who were the key players? What is to prevent a similar evil gaining acceptance again today? Just as Britain’s industrial development in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was built largely on the back of slave labour, so too was the development of new ideas and values, shaped by the moral dilemmas arising from the shameful act of denying people their liberty.The story of the Scottish Enlightenment is entwined with that of slavery and the slave trade. In fifteen stories set between 1720 and 1865 in Britain, Africa, the Caribbean and America, Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment introduces a diverse cast of characters, both white and black, whose moral viewpoints and active choices between right and wrong helped shape the world in which they lived. As the legacy of slavery continues to infect our lives, we face similar choices today – choices that will determine the ever-evolving values of our society.

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

Author : Justin Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025850
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 written by Justin Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.

It Wisnae Us

Author : Stephen Mullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873190623
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book It Wisnae Us written by Stephen Mullen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past

Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408818
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past by : Tom M. Devine

Download or read book Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past written by Tom M. Devine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotlands connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field , with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia and slavery,the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots in the Caribbean sugar islands ,compensation paid to Scottish owners when slavery was abolished,domestic controversies on the slave trade,the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish history,to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in discovering an untold aspect of Scotlands past.

Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838

Author : Iain Whyte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626999
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838 written by Iain Whyte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 "e;the horrible traffik in humans"e;. 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.

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics of Abolition

Author : Glen Ian Doris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics of Abolition written by Glen Ian Doris and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the 1792 failure of Abolition was not due to a denial of the principle of ending slavery but a rejection of abrupt change demonstrates that the Scottish Enlightenment, through the agency of Dundas, encouraged delaying the abolition of the Slave Trade for fifteen years.

Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748645330
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by : Christopher J. Berry

Download or read book Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J. Berry and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', David Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects' and Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace's 'Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind'.

Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith

Author : Brian Bonnyman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748694692
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith written by Brian Bonnyman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third duke of Buccleuch (17461812) presided over the management of one of Britain's largest landed estates during a period of profound agrarian, social and political change. Tutored by the philosopher Adam Smith, the duke was also a leading patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati as an exemplar of patriotic nobility and civic virtue, while his alliance with Henry Dundas dominated Scottish politics for almost 40 years. Combining the approaches of intellectual, economic and agrarian history, this book examines the life and career of the third duke, focusing in particular on his relationship with Adam Smith and the improvement of his vast Border estates, assessing the influence of Enlightenment thought on agricultural revolution. In its exploration of the cultural as well as the economic roots of Improvement and in its assessment of a previously unappreciated aspect of Smith's career, this book has appeal for both specialist scholars and general readers interested in the Scottish Enlightenment and the culture of Improvement in 18th-century Scotland.

Blood Legacy

Author : Alex Renton
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689887X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Blood Legacy written by Alex Renton and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Blood Legacy explores what inheritance – political, economic, moral and spiritual – has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former – himself among them – can begin to make reparations for the past.

Slaves and Highlanders

Author : David Alston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474427319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Slaves and Highlanders written by David Alston and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.

The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137069791
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment written by Silvia Sebastiani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

Intending Scotland

Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748679332
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Intending Scotland written by Cairns Craig and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

The Inner Life of Empires

Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156123
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Life of Empires written by Emma Rothschild and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307420957
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book How the Scots Invented the Modern World written by Arthur Herman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.

The South Sea Bubble

Author : Helen Paul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136903100
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The South Sea Bubble written by Helen Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up until now, economic history research has not been integrated into mainstream histories of 1720. Technical work on share prices and ledgers has been inaccessible to a wider audience. As well as providing new evidence against the gambling mania argument, the book also interprets the existing economic history scholarship for non-specialists.

The Problem of Humanity

Author : Kaija Tiainen-Anttila
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Humanity written by Kaija Tiainen-Anttila and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690-1805

Author : Thomas Ahnert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300153805
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690-1805 written by Thomas Ahnert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Enlightenment it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this “enlightened” emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on arguments from reason alone than has been believed. In fact, Scottish Enlightenment champions advocated a practical program of “moral culture,” in which revealed religion was of central importance. Ahnert traces this to theological controversies going back as far as the Reformation concerning the conditions of salvation. His findings present a new point of departure for all scholars interested in the intersection of religion and Enlightenment.