| Comment | It's going to be quite a big list.
Speirs Wharf. Buchanan St. Glassford St. Hutcheson St. Virginia St. Jamaica St. Tobago St. Cochrane St.
A lot of Dennistoun is named after Tobacco lords, so add Findlay, Ingleby, Garthland, Thompson, et al.
I mean where does the line get drawn? Is it just the names that traded slaves, or all the names that owned a slave in the family, or anyone involved in tobacco, cotton or corn but never had hands on a slave?
Before the Act that made slave trading illegal, just about every rich person in Glasgow had a slave working as a maid or similar. After the Act, there were efforts to hide it (such as the Glassford family portrait having the slave painted over), but or was completely widespread. All the rich, all the nobles and nearly all the mechants were involved in this. You'd need to rename loads and loads, including some of the west end. |
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