David Alston

Slaves and Highlanders

Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781474427319
• ISBN-10: 1474427316
• Artikelnr.: 59996294

Autorenporträt

David Alston is a Historian and Independent Researcher. He is the author of Ross & Cromarty: A Historical Guide (1997) and My Little Town of Cromarty: The History of a Northern Scottish Town (2006). He was a Highland Councillor and from 1991-2003 was curator/manager of Cromarty Courthouse Museum. He has published articles on the Highlands and Slavery including 'Very Rapid and Splendid Fortunes: Highland Scots in Berbice (Guyana) in the early nineteenth century', in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, (2007) and wrote a chapter in the T.D. Devine edited collection 'Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past' (EUP, 2015).