A CIVIC reception hosted by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost (The National, Aug 25) remembered the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. The occasion…
A CIVIC reception hosted by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost remembered the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. The occasion was the launch of the work of a review implementation group on Edinburgh’s historic links with slavery and colonialism.
“It is apparent,” commented the antiquary William Moir Bryce on this transportation, “that the proposed banishment of many of the prisoners as white slaves in the plantations – if not also to make use of torture – originated in the suggestion of the Privy Council in Edinburgh.”
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