Exploring Scotland's slavery past in 5 locations ADED11969E

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: Short Courses
  • Credits: 5
  • Level: Level 1 (SCQF level 7)
  • Typically Offered: Summer
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This brief course consists of five talks offering virtual guided tours of specific locations across the Central belt of Scotland with significant and often overlooked connections to slavery and abolition. This course highlights the importance of New World slavery and enslaved labour to Glasgow's tobacco lords and the city's emergence as the "Second city of the empire". It also examines how the people and profits of the slave trade changed the built landscape, industry, trade, and architecture across central Scotland. The five locations include: the Merchant City, Greenock & Port Glasgow, the Clyde, Edinburgh's New Town, and the University of Glasgow Gilmorehill campus. Maps and notes will be provided for students who wish to make their own visits to the locations.

Timetable

2 hours per week for 5 weeks

For timetable details, please see our web pages University of Glasgow - Study - Short courses

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

ILOs 1 & 2

Choice of either:

- a 1,000-word case study

- or an 800 word / 1 page poster

.. on the history of a Scottish site covered by the course (or approved by the tutor) explaining its connection to the profits and demands of slavery and enslaved labour. (100% of final grade)

Course Aims

This course aims to:

■ Present students with a broader contextual understanding of the role of New World slavery in the industrialisation of Scotland from approx. 1750 to the mid-19th century.

■ Introduce students to the history of specific sites in central Scotland that arose from the profits and demands of slavery and enslaved labour.

■ Invite students to discover and review the legacies of slavery still present in Scotland today.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Recognise and explain the historical importance of slavery to Scotland, specifically the impact of slavery's profits on central Scotland's development and industrialisation

■ Locate and be able to discuss the history of a specific site in central Scotland that arose from the profits and demands of slavery and enslaved labour.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.