St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church Edinburgh Princes St, is the latest to be connected to its association with the Legacy of Slavery Money.
St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church Edinburgh Princes St, Scotland’s Slavery Legacy
Iconic site on Islay with Slavery connections
Portnahaven Church Islay and the round Church Bowmore including the village at Bowmore were built on land owned by Daniel Campbell who traded in goods produced from the slavery economy.
Legacy of Slavery & the Free Church Connection
Rev Y Gooljary, a licensed Minister in the Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, has written to the owners of what is now the Columba Hotel in Iona about its history and where the money came from to build it in the 19thC.
Elijah McCoy #OnThisDay
On 23rd July 1872 African Canadian American inventor Elijah McCoy was granted a patent for lubricators for steam-engines.
Aberdeen Exhibition Addresses The Legacies of Slavery
“The exhibition is an important step towards a truthful telling of this story and so an understanding of both how this shaped our past and the continuing legacy it has today.” Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen
Did Henry Dundas delay the abolition of slavery for financial gain?
Dundas was President of the Board of Control over the East India Company from 1793-1801.
#Grenada
Today, 7 February, Grenada celebrates its Independence Day.
Zumbi #OnThisDay
On 20th of November 1695 Zumbi, the last King of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, was executed and decapitated.
Challenging The Church of Scotland on its Historic Links to Slavery
“The reason I am so concerned as a member of the clergy is to right the injustices of the past to inform the strategies of today and formulate new hope for the young people of tomorrow. “
Book Review: In My Right Place, the Life and Times of Joseph Clouston, Gold Coast Merchant and Harray Laird
“The fortunes of these real people twinkle through the centuries to us in a remarkable historical feat of research and story-telling”
