Scots in the Atlantic Economy, 1600–1800

Roessner, Philipp; Devine, Thomas

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“…The Black Lives Matter movement has resonated throughout the world and is coherent with international calls to challenge White privilege and decolonise the curriculum. There are serious implications for Scotland, highlighted by Stephen J. McKinney and Lauren Booth in this section, particularly the city of Glasgow (the second city of the Empire), and the historical manifestations of wealth accumulated from the tobacco and sugar trades, ultimately supplied by the work of slaves in the plantations (Devine and Rossner, 2012). A number of debates have opened up.…”

Section: Decolonising the Curriculum In Scotlandmentioning

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Decolonising curriculum in education: continuing proclamations and provocations

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There is no denying the importance and increased significance of interest in decolonisation in education and the wider social sciences. This article aims to bring a continuing contribution to an evolving and important discussion. The methodology of this work allows a range of academics from different cultural contexts to voice their decolonising proclamations. The authors of the article are a combination of White, Black, Asian and mixed-race academic researchers in higher education who have come together to proclaim their viewpoints. They draw upon their research and apply professional practice in relation to differing aspects of generally decolonising education and specifically decolonising curricula. As a group, we believe that the notion of decolonising applies to all sections of education – not only to primary schools, but also to nurseries, secondary schools, colleges and universities. We hope this article will encourage more research, advocacy and action within education and interdisciplinary contexts into the complexity of decolonising the curriculum.

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Section: Decolonising the Curriculum In Scotlandmentioning

confidence: 94%

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“…Confirming the new orthodoxy, two textbooks listed Atlantic markets and colonial investments as causal factors in Scottish industrialisation (Devine, 2005;Devine & Rössner, 2011). In a study of Scottish trade 1700-1760, Rössner concluded Scotland's Commercial Revolution did not progress until after 1730, whilst noting slave trade voyages from the port of Montrose (Rössner, 2008).…”

Section: Slavery the Atlantic Trades And Scotland's Industrial Revolutionmentioning

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Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Mullen

2022

History Compass

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The historiography of Scotland's connections with transatlantic slavery across the British Empire has flourished in the last 20 years, promoting wider public discussion and civic recognition. Nevertheless, the view that historians of Scotland omitted slavery from Scottish historiography remains part of popular discourse. This article adds nuance by considering the absences and eventual centring of slavery in Scottish historiography. In the 1960s, it was argued by historians that foreign trade-and by extension Atlantic slavery-had a limited effect on the economic development of 18th-century Scotland. However, studies of the Atlantic trades and merchant capital undermined that orthodoxy in the 1970s, although works of that era that addressed Scotland's Atlantic economy tended to acknowledge slavery only in tokenistic fashion, if at all. Nevertheless, whilst slavery was not centred in these works, they established the view that Atlantic commerce and merchant capital were central to Scottish economic development. In the last 25 years, slavery has been centred in Scottish historiography and earlier works have taken on new significance. Studies after 1997 have revealed the involvement of Scots with the slave trade

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“…However, after initial financial success in tobacco from Maryland and Virginia, slavery‐based colonial trading ventures gradually became profitable for merchants back in Scotland until they dominated the European market alongside England in the mid‐eighteenth century. Tobacco, accounting for as much as 40% of Scotland's total imports and exports at the time, made merchants like John Glassford, Archibald Ingram, and Andrew Buchanan the country's rich tobacco lords whose names mark the streets of Merchant City, Glasgow metropolitan center (Devine ; Devine and Rossner ). By the late eighteenth century, financial motivations drew thousands of Scots into the Caribbean.…”

Section: Scotland and Atlantic Slaverymentioning

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Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

Brunache

2019

Transforming Anthropology

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More than a decade after Britain's bicentennial commemoration of the 1807 Abolition Act to end the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Scotland still struggles to reconcile her colonial past. Unlike in North America, historical archaeology centered on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is still highly marginalized in British academia. Furthermore, Scotland's roles in slave-based economies is only recently being considered a relevant area of historical studies. This paper emerges from my evolving perspective as a Black American scholar and resident in the United Kingdom, as I strive to create intellectual spaces in and outside of academia. Through civic engagement, I use my work on African diasporic foodways in the French Caribbean to link with a similar material basis of resistance in the British Caribbean and engage British audiences whose connections to Atlantic slavery are yet to be fully recognized. [Atlantic slavery, transatlantic slave trade, Scotland, history, foodways]

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Scots in the Atlantic Economy, 1600–1800

Cited by 9 publications

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Decolonising curriculum in education: continuing proclamations and provocations

Decolonising curriculum in education: continuing proclamations and provocations

Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

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