| Comment | Just a wee correction (which is risky on such a touchy subject during these times), but Glasgow didn't actually have a lot of slave owners and the city wasn't built by slaves. Glasgow benefitted from a 'slave triangle', where Glasgow's wealthy did benefit from there being a slave trade, but didn't always have direct involvement with the slave trade. That is, the Glasgow merchants bought and sold tobacco and textiles that came from plantations that had more direct slave trade links. The city benefitted from "blood money", but indirectly.
(Not to minimise or apologise for it. I'mean just pointing out that it's not accurate to refer to a lot of Glasgow's old merchants as actual slave "owners".) |
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