Importing enslaved Africans into eighteenth-century Scotland

John W. Cairns

Importing enslaved Africans into eighteenth-century Scotland

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Eighteenth-Century merchants encountered a world of enslavement. This paper explores the specific importation not Scotland of an enslaved black servant, probably intended as a page, by a small Scottish firm engaged in the Atlantic trade for a client, drawing more general conclusions from it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Deutsches, Europäisches und Vergleichendes Wirtschaftsrecht
Subtitle of host publication	Festschrift für Werner F. Ebke zum 70. Geburtstag
Editors	Boris Paal, Dörte Poelzig, Oliver Fehrenbacher
Place of Publication	Munich
Publisher	Verlag C.H. Beck
Pages	155-163
Number of pages	9
Edition	1
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2021

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enslavement
Scotland
merchants
slave trade

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Importing enslaved Africans into eighteenth-century Scotland. / Cairns, John W.
Deutsches, Europäisches und Vergleichendes Wirtschaftsrecht: Festschrift für Werner F. Ebke zum 70. Geburtstag. ed. / Boris Paal; Dörte Poelzig; Oliver Fehrenbacher. 1. ed. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2021. p. 155-163.

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Importing enslaved Africans into eighteenth-century Scotland

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