Project blog
Historians know relatively little about the enslaved people who lived, worked and died in eighteenth century Britain. This project will create a database of searchable information about those who sought to escape their bondage. Not all of the the people who ran away from their masters in Georgian Britain were of African descent, and a small number were Native Americans or were from the Indian sub-continent. While some were not slaves, many were described by their masters in terms of slavery.
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British Slavery Runaway Slaves Academia American Slavery Education
14 December 2018
This is a guest blog written by independent researcher Audrey Dewjee. Audrey has than 40 years of research, mainly examining and unearthing the history of black people in Britain. She...
Glasgow University Rector sold man for £100 and spent the money on wine
16 September 2018
The slave labour of Africans made Robert Cunningham Graham a wealthy man. After 20 years in Jamaica, he returned home to Scotland in 1772. Before leaving, Graham and his wife sold some...
Scot Free: Dr. James McCune-Smith and the long arm of racism, pt.III
2 June 2018
In a three-part series of blogs, Professor Simon Newman writes on the cultural significance of James McCune-Smith, describing Smith’s status as one of nineteenth-century America’s...
Scot Free: Dr. James McCune-Smith and the long arm of racism, pt.II
2 June 2018
In a three-part series of blogs, Professor Simon Newman writes on the cultural significance of James McCune-Smith, describing Smith’s status as one of nineteenth-century America’s...