Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707

Worthington, David

doi:10.1080/03096564.2019.1616141

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“…Although there is some evidence of human C4 consumption, in the form of millet, during the Roman period in southern England (Müldner et al, 2011;Pollard et al, 2011), there is currently no convincing evidence to suggest isotopically identifiable consumption of such foods in medieval Scotland. Although not beyond the realms of possibility, it is unlikely that most of the later medieval parish community were consuming C4 in the form of sugar, despite its acquisition and consumption by certain members of the elite in and around Easter Ross from the 16 th century (McGill, 1909;Worthington, 2019). Differences in δ 15 N values between herbivore species may reflect varied feeding strategies or animals imported from different geographical regions that were fed on different types of fodder.…”

Section: Faunal Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Resultsmentioning

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From Picts to Parish: Stable isotope evidence of dietary change at medieval Portmahomack, Scotland

Curtis-Summers

Pearson

Lamb

2020

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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In this study, period-specific dietary trends, along with socio-economic and religious influences on foods consumed by Pictish and medieval inhabitants from Portmahomack are investigated. Bone collagen from human adults (n=137) and fauna (n=71) were analysed for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios to enable dietary reconstructions of the whole adult skeletal assemblage. Adult mean δ 13 C and δ 15 N values from all periods (6 th to 17 th century) were -19.5‰ ± 1.3‰ and 13.3‰ ± 1.7‰ respectively. A diachronic change in diet between early medieval Pictish lay and monastic communities (periods 1-3) and the later medieval parish layfolk (periods 4-5) was found that suggests changing socio-economic and religious influences, along with age and gender differences in diet that reflect possible divisions in labour and status. Faunal data also reflected a diachronic change in diet, most likely related to a change in animal husbandry practices over time. This is the first large-scale study on the Portmahomack assemblage and presents new isotope data to provide a more comprehensive insight into Pictish and medieval subsistence patterns, along with evidence of how religious and social foci may influence diet over time. Such comprehensive investigations can only be adopted by analysing the whole skeletal assemblage, providing robust faunal baselines and inter-and intra-site comparisons. Most importantly, this significant new evidence fundamentally changes our knowledge of diet and subsistence in medieval Scotland and the potential influences therein.

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Section: Faunal Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Resultsmentioning

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From Picts to Parish: Stable isotope evidence of dietary change at medieval Portmahomack, Scotland

Curtis-Summers

Pearson

Lamb

2020

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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“…Macinnes offered a corrective to Smout's vision of the Union of 1707 rescuing Scotland from economic ruin, in the process noting the significance of Scotland's pre‐union imperial ventures including in slavery societies such as Barbados (Macinnes, 2007b). In studies of Scots across the Atlantic world, Stuart Nisbet (2008) and David Worthington (2019) explicitly adopted ‘slavery’ their titles, reflecting the new awareness amongst Scottish historians.…”

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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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“…6For example, Catterall, “Interlopers in an Intercultural Zone?,” 75–96; Worthington, “Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname,” 3–20.…”

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Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

Wagner¹

2022

Itinerario

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This article examines the legal and sociopolitical position that Scots held in the English Atlantic world from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the restoration of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. It demonstrates that Scots gained access to colonial opportunities through the royal patronage of James VI and I and Charles I. The policy of those monarchs also largely supported Scottish endeavours in the transatlantic arena: in land ownership, commerce, and colonial leadership. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Commonwealth, and the Protectorate disrupted the colonial opportunities that were opened to Scots in the preceding decades. They lost their access to royal patronage, and the concept of Commonwealth subjecthood displaced the earlier concept of postnati subjecthood. By tracing how concepts of subjecthood developed in this period, the article contextualises the Restoration period when Scots were labelled as aliens in the English Navigation Acts to restrict their access to the English Atlantic.

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Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

From Picts to Parish: Stable isotope evidence of dietary change at medieval Portmahomack, Scotland

From Picts to Parish: Stable isotope evidence of dietary change at medieval Portmahomack, Scotland

Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

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