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Ut. Tech David Alston's Slaves and Highlanders is necessary reading for our moment, with the racial reckoning in global headlines resting on an honest reckoning with history. Alston illuminates the Scottish role in slavery, the slave trade and empire in the Caribbean with a moral commitment to the 'half glimpsed figures' at its margins.
David Alston uses Christy Robertson (1780–1842) and her family as a case study to demonstrate the extent to which middle-class families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were involved in the enslavement of Black Africans and the extent to which this involvement was accepted as part of everyday life on the north of Scotland ...
Dec 9, 2022 · David Alston has received the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year for his Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean.
David Alston is a historian and author of Slaves and Highlanders, a book that explores the involvement of Scottish Highlanders in the slave trade and plantation economy in the Caribbean and Guyana. The book draws on archival sources and personal stories to reveal the voices of Scots, enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Scholars have deployed terms ranging from amnesia to disavowal to describe this lack of engagement with the Scottish role in Atlantic slavery and its legacies. In Slaves and Highlanders, David Alston focuses on what he calls ‘silenced’ histories of Scottish connections to slavery.
Nov 21, 2020 · Historian Dr David Alston thinks it is likely that because of her background 14-year-old Eliza would have encountered prejudice throughout her life and would have had a "vulnerable position"...
Historian David Alston adds to these voices to further reveal the part that Scottish people had to play in the development, prosperity, and exploitation of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonies.
