'Did Slavery Make Scotland Great?' - that's the talk being delivered by University of Edinburgh historian Tom Devine this coming Saturday at the Inverness based Scotland's Global Impact Conference.
For more, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8318723.stm
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Fascinating that they would link freed blacks with slavery. There were many who were not ever slaves.
ReplyDeleteI love the SGNE site.
Thanks for so many informative postings.