Scotland's relationship with Slavery by Kate Phillips

# 10th Dec 2023: How and why did a religious country like Scotland in 17th and 18th centuries, get involved in slavery and how was it eventually ended? by Kate Phillips

Come along to The Outhouse (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh) at 4 pm for a talk on ‘How and why did a religious country like Scotland in 17th and 18th centuries, get involved in slavery and how was it eventually ended?' by Kate Phillips. Everyone is welcome to the free event; people are warmly invited to bring an item of food to put on the table and help take away everything at the end so there is no waste.

#### Bullet points of talk:

• How Scotland got involved in enslaving people.
• How the triangular trade worked.
• Lives of Scots working and living on plantations.
• How the slave trade and the institution of slavery ended.

#### A few paragraphs about Kate Phillips:

For many years I directed a postgraduate fellowship at University of Glasgow which brought rights activists from troubled countries in Africa and the Middle East to study in Scotland. In 2022 I published Bought and Sold, Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery. Dr Stephen Mullen called the book ‘one of the best popular histories of Scots in the West Indies’.

Kate has provided a lot of detail about the areas which her talk is covering which will not fit in the text box in Meetup. For those who want to read more and also tune into free research information sources which includes links to the first chapter of her book please visit the speakers information page on the Ragged University webite:

https://raggeduniversity.co.uk/2023/11/24/10th-nov-2023-how-and-why-did-a-religious-country-like-scotland-in-17th-and-18th-centuries-get-involved-in-slavery-and-how-was-it-eventually-ended-by-kate-phillips/