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• Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean
  • Scots in the Caribbean
  • Goods exchanged for slaves in Africa
  • The legal status of slavery
• Scottish slavers in West Africa
  • Sir Alexander Grant of Dalvey
  • Slaving forts in Africa
  • African kings and chiefs in the slave trade
• Plantation slavery
  • Caribbean plantations owned by North East Scots
  • Enslaved sugar workers and skills
  • Violence against slaves
  • Thomas Gordon of Buthlaw and Cairness
  • Jamaica’s Baptist War
• Fortune hunters in the Caribbean
  • Jonathan Troup
  • Drs James Clark and James Laing
  • Caribbean plantations with Scottish place names
  • Violence against slaves
• African-Scottish families
  • Slave names
  • Colour consciousness in the Caribbean
  • John Shand and Frances Brown
  • Frances Batty Shand
  • Jonathan Troup
• Indirect profits from slavery
  • Clothing and slavery
  • William Forbes
  • Alexander Allardyce
  • William Shand
• Abolishing the slave trade
  • James Beattie
  • James Ramsay
  • William Dickson
  • Olaudah Equiano
• Ending slavery
  • Emancipation
  • Free Labour Sugar
  • Aberdeen Anti-Slavery Society
  • Jamaica’s Baptist War
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  • Topic 1 – Buying people with metal, guns and beads (Section 1 – Enslaving Africans)
    • Resource 1A – Objects sold in exchange for slaves
    • Resource 1B – Scottish slavers ship guns to Sierra Leone
    • Resource 1C – An Aberdeenshire clerk describes the slave trade
  • Topic 2 – Kidnapped and enslaved (Section 1 – Enslaving Africans)
    • Resource 2A – Asa-Asa’s story
    • Resource 2B – Olaudah Equiano’s story
    • Resource 2C – African captives being marched to the coast
    • Resource 2D – Captives below decks on a Portuguese slave ship
  • Topic 3 – The Triangular Trade (Section 1 – Enslaving Africans)
    • Resource 3A – A British slaving voyage, 1721–2
    • Resource 3B – Printed version of a British slaving voyage, 1721–2
    • Resource 3C – Map of the Triangular Trade
  • Topic 4 – Products of slave labour (Section 2 – Slavery in the Caribbean)
    • Resource 4A – Objects illustrating slave-grown produce
    • Resource 4B – Photographs of the cultivation of Caribbean produce
    • Resource 4C – Advertisements and labels for Caribbean produce
  • Topic 5 – Treating people as property (Section 2 – Slavery in the Caribbean)
    • Resource 5A – The sale of Mary Prince, aged 12
    • Resource 5B – The sale of a woman and her children in Suriname
  • Topic 6 – Labouring in the cane fields (Section 2 – Slavery in the Caribbean)
    • Resource 6A – Digging the cane holes in Antigua
  • Topic 7 – Slave names and identities (Section 2 – Slavery in the Caribbean)
  • Topic 8 – Arguments for abolishing the slave trade (Section 3 – Abolition and Emancipation)
    • Resource 8A – James Ramsay argues against the slave trade
    • Resource 8B – A cartoonist attacks the anti-slave trade campaign
  • Topic 9 – Publicising the anti-slave trade campaign (Section 3 – Abolition and Emancipation)
    • Resource 9A – William Dickson campaigns in North East Scotland
    • Resource 9B – Map of North East Scotland
  • Topic 10 – Rebelling against enslavement (Section 3 – Abolition and Emancipation)
    • Resource 10A – Jamaica orders rebels to surrender, 1832
  • Topic 11 – Illustrating abolition and emancipation (Section 3 – Abolition and Emancipation)
    • Resource 11A – ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ Wedgwood medallion
    • Resource 11B – Painting celebrating the end of the slave trade, 1807
    • Resource 11C – Print celebrating emancipation, 1838
  • Topic 12 – After slavery in the Caribbean (Section 4 – After Slavery)
    • Resource 12A – Sugar harvest in Trinidad, 1908
    • Resource 12B – Tobacco workers at home in Jamaica, 1900
    • Resource 12C – Sugarcane workers in Jamaica, 1900
    • Resource 12D – A Scottish herring packer, 1900
  • Topic 13 – After slavery in Britain (Section 4 – After Slavery )
    • Resource 13A – Pears’ Soap magazine advertisement, 1884
    • Resource 13B – Pears’ Soap magazine advertisement, 1901
  • Topic 14 – Remembering slavery (Section 4 – After Slavery )
    • Resource 14A – Commemorative items from the 2007 bicentenary
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