The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy by Stephen Mullen
The first book to outline Scotland's colonial past and Glasgow's direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations.This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery's economic impact on British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation of chattel slavery in the British West Indies in 1834. Many acquired nationally significant fortunes, and their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society. At its core, the book traces the development of merchant capital and poses several interrelated questions during an era of rapid transformation, namely, what impact the private investments of West India merchants and colonial adventurers had on metropolitan society and the economy, as well as the wider effects of such commerce on industrial and agricultural development.
The book also examines the fortunes of temporary Scottish economic migrants who traveled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands, presenting the first large-scale survey of repatriated slavery fortunes via case studies of Scots in Jamaica, Grenada, and Trinidad before emancipation in 1834. It, therefore, takes a new approach to illuminate the world of individuals who acquired West Indian fortunes and ultimately explores, in an Atlantic frame, the interconnections between the colonies and metropole in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Mullen, Stephen: - Stephen Mullen is a postdoctoral research assistant in history on the Leverhulme funded project Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Race and Freedom in the Eighteenth Century, led by professor Simon Newman and assisted by doctoral researcher Nelson Mundell.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912702336 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912702339 |
| Title | The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy |
| Author | Stephen Mullen |
| Series | New Historical Perspectives |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of London |
| Year published | 2022-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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