Glasgow - hero or villain of plantation slavery?
Published: 20 December 2010
Should the Merchant City really be renamed the Slave Merchant City - an article by Glasgow PhD student Stephen Mullen casts light on Glasgow's financial reliance on plantation slavery
Though Glaswegians were instrumental in bringing slavery to an end, how much did the wealth of the city rely on that original trade? New research by University College London helps put an actual pricetag on that involvement. In a fascinating piece in the Sunday Herald Business section, Glasgow PhD student Stephen Mullen contextualises the Glasgow story.
Stephen's own PhD research will be broadly in the same area. You can read the full article here.
First published: 20 December 2010
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