The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838

Stephen Mullen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2022
University of London Press (Verlag)
978-1-909646-77-3 (ISBN)

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The wealth generated both directly and indirectly by Caribbean slavery had a major impact on Glasgow and Scotland. Glasgow's Sugar Aristocracy is the first book to directly assess the size, nature and effects of this. West India merchants and plantation owners based in Glasgow made nationally significant fortunes, some of which boosted Scottish capitalism, as well as the temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands. This book adds much needed nuance to the argument in a Scottish context; revealing methods of repatriating wealth from the Caribbean as well as mercantile investments in industry, banking and land and philanthropic initiatives.

Dr Stephen Mullen is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in History on the Leverhulme funded project `Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Race and Freedom in the Eighteenth Century', led by Professor Simon Newman and assisted by doctoral researcher Mr Nelson Mundell. This project examines black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain. At the heart of our project will be a searchable database of runaway slave advertisements from eighteenth-century English and Scottish newspapers.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	New Historical Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	4 halftones, 3 maps, 18 tables; 25 Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 245 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-909646-77-6 / 1909646776
ISBN-13	978-1-909646-77-3 / 9781909646773
Zustand	Neuware