Thread: There’s a document we hold at @UofGlasgowASC which I’ve long found affecting and troubling — the 1829 appraisal of the Scottish-owned Invera (i.e. Inverawe) plantation on Tobago, listing some 120 enslaved Black people as property, recording their given names and value 1/
It has recently featured in our Call And Response exhibition highlighting links between @UofGlasgow and chattel slavery. Here @SimonatMadison introduces the document https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/slavery/callandresponse/exhibition/peggy/ and here @LMcMillan90 discusses some aspects 2/ https://twitter.com/uofglasgowasc/status/1215234296451141632
The UCL Legacies of British-Slave ownership database lists Campbells from Ormaig in Argyll as previous owners of the Invera[we] plantation on Tobago: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146631595 Given that I’m on holiday just round the corner I thought I’d take a look today 3/
No road directly in. A track westward over the hill (possibly an old cart track I think) from Carnasserie castle just north of Kilmartin 4/
No road directly in. A track westward over the hill (possibly an old cart track I think) from Carnasserie castle just north of Kilmartin 4/
No road directly in. A track westward over the hill (possibly an old cart track I think) from Carnasserie castle just north of Kilmartin 4/
This joins up with a newer forestry road over the top of the bealach descending towards the coast looking over to the yachts at Ardfern Marina 5/
And at the bottom of the hill, down a private road, is what I’m guessing was Ormaig House. Now gone and replaced by a low modern building (not residential, I think, and no one home). Beside it though, the early farm steading still remains 6/
And at the bottom of the hill, down a private road, is what I’m guessing was Ormaig House. Now gone and replaced by a low modern building (not residential, I think, and no one home). Beside it though, the early farm steading still remains 6/
And at the bottom of the hill, down a private road, is what I’m guessing was Ormaig House. Now gone and replaced by a low modern building (not residential, I think, and no one home). Beside it though, the early farm steading still remains 6/
With beautiful views out westward, even on a damp and overcast day 7/
The point of this? I’m not sure. Other than stating again (as many more expert have already been doing eg https://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/) that legacies of, and links to, slavery in Scotland are everywhere. Not just in the urban built environment but throughout rural Scotland too. End/
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