Cairness and The Caribbean: Slavery's Legacy in North East Scotland
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2019
- This film builds on recent work by historians about the role of Scots in Caribbean slavery. It focuses on the Gordon family of Cairness near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire in the late eighteenth
and early 19th centuries and describes the links between Cairness House, one of Scotland’s greatest neo-classical country houses and the Georgia sugar plantation on the island of Jamaica. Cairness House and many other country houses in Scotland reminds us of a dark period in our history and of our common, shared heritage with people of West Africa and the Caribbean.
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My Mom was from Scotland .. in 1981 I was in North Carolina and purchased a book called The Highland Scots of NC .. and then I realized how many black people I knew had Scottish last names which obviously came from their families association with slave owners who were Scottish .. thank you for this well researched explanation of a small part of that gigantic awful story
Thank you for your excellent work and guidance in helping us all better understand our shared heritage. I have been struck by the enormity and breadth of ancient coincidental cultural connections between the Picts and the Tribes of Southeast Alaska. Those coincidences include shared personal pronouns and nouns, clan titles, clan names, matrilineal kinships, foods, hunting practices, drums, and tattoo practices. Please keep publishing. The world needs to know.
Thanks for this, it made me very emotional to see the slave registers and the photos. Very well presented, with an empathetic tone and with no attempt to sugarcoat the past.
Very interesting video, I have stayed not far from Cairness House for around 10 years and have always wondered about the family that built it.
So to come across this video has really made my day thank yo very much.... 🏴🏴🏴
Please make more videos. They are great!
amazing insights here, top stuff!!
Thank you, very interesting. My father lived in East Lodge as a child from about 1929 until 1937. His father was an employee at "the big House". He has told me many stories of his time there. He would have had no idea of its links to slavery. Although more fortunate than many of his contemporaries the whole class system meant that they were definitely an under class.
That is very interesting. Your Grandfather was, like most of "the under class", kept ignorant of the true source of his employer's wealth. Many owners still go to great lengths to protect this knowledge, although some of the more enlightened estates are beginning to acknowledge some aspects of it.
What a humble and honest presentation. Thank you 🙏🏽
love these videos
Great video!
I do hope you haven't given up with the channel or are in poor health. I've been enjoying catching up with these.
We have not given up! A few health problems have set us back this year. We are both getting older! Alan is currently researching the next project. As usual getting access to the historical archives is the problem. Thank you for your interest.
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Brilliant video Ive been tracing my roots and found connections to the slave trade also
This was neat
Excellent video about local history, Cairness is about 15 miles from where I live in Longside, there is also a Buthlaw about 3 miles from Longside, I don’t know if it’s the same one. Thanks.
Yes. I think it's Mains of Buthlaw -near the Formartine and Buchan Way.
Thank you so much for this research hard hitting presentation and filling in some gaps of my ignorance and lack of knowledge of slave trade. The register was tough am only just learning Scottish history and culture and formation of the land, its a lot to get head around. 1707 feels ominous as this was the act of union and if this had not happened would Scotland have been involved with the slave trade at all. Just my pondering thoughts.
Excellent documentary. I'd like to see a follow up about the Aberdeen children who were sold to America as slaves.
The kidnapping of some children from Aberdeen and other towns and cities in Britain, and their lives in Britain’s colonies has been noted in some publications and web sites. In Aberdeen, the case of “Indian Peter” is an extraordinary example of this and you can read about him in a book by Douglas Skelton. It would be inaccurate however to describe the experience of children like this as similar to that of black slaves Although they may have been treated cruelly and brutally, their period of labour was limited, and as indentured labour, they had defined legal rights.
The estimated 12 million slaves of West African descent who were shipped to the Americas in the
era of slavery were regarded as their owner’s chattel and had no legal rights at all. Their experience was defined by racism and by the uniquely genocidal nature of their slavery.
Dip In Video how many of these Scott’s were actually Scottish that owned slaves? Alexander Hamilton is a good example of what I’m talking about.