Bought and Sold: Slavery, Scotland and Jamaica
To coincide with Black History Month, Kate Phillips will be discussing her book Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery, hosted by The Merchants House of Glasgow.
About Bought and Sold: Slavery, Scotland and Jamaica
She will be talking about the divisions in Scottish society over the issue of slavery - the investment by Glasgow merchants, traders and industrialists in all aspects of the trade and the brutal resistance of Scottish planters to improving the lives of the enslaved in Jamaica.
Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain’s richest colony and its major slave trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their captives.
Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and reflects on the meaning of those years for both nations today.
Kate Phillips is a social development specialist. For over 40 years, she researched, taught and prepared educational material for rights activists, trade unionists, members of parliaments and would-be politicians in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Pacific Islands, where she travelled widely. She has a particular interest in women’s lives and organisations in Africa. For many years she directed a post-graduate fellowship awarded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and held in the University of Glasgow which brought rights activists from troubled countries in Africa and the Middle East to study in Scotland.
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