David Alston

Historian with a special interest in Northern Scots and their role in the slave trade and slave plantations of the Caribbean (especially Guyana)

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@AndSlavery @Demerara1823 Earlier resistance on this plantation too: in 1804 Morris of Success, an Ebo, was seen as influential and dangerous. He had been offered the position of King of his nation but said he refused. Morris was sent out of the colony. Quamina would know this history.

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@JAFMacDonald Col Blackadder's journals mention slavery but only only in reference to the 'threat' to liberty posed by Catholicism.

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@JAFMacDonald Thanks, Fraser. As you say there are older histories in play. Cameronian Col John Blackadder (son of the Covenanter Rev John Blackadder - a hero for the Free Church in 1843) found no problem in having his portrait painted c.1705 with an enslaved black boy. https://t.co/Ch99H9aNt8

[Ruairidh Maciver @RuairidhMaciver]

Gaiutra visited the Highlands in 2009 when she was researching her book. While she isn't aware of any direct familial links to the country, she says that 'as Indo-Caribbeans, as descendants of indenture, as Guyanese, we all have Scotland as a fatherland.'

[Ruairidh Maciver @RuairidhMaciver]

Journalist and writer @gbahadur, author of 'Coolie Woman: An Odyssey of Indenture', agrees that people in all countries involved in this system should learn about the history and its legacy.

[Ruairidh Maciver @RuairidhMaciver]

The Highland historian @DavidAl87581942 has called for greater awareness of the role played by Scots in taking indentured labourers from India to the Caribbean in the years after the abolition of slavery. https://t.co/vG8Fi89Cvq

[Northern Bibliosphere Podcast @NorthBibliopod]

🎙SPECIAL SHORTLIST SERIES!

📗Exciting news! In the coming weeks we'll be speaking to the amazing writers shortlisted for @highlandbook1 this year.

Listen to the first episode on our website https://t.co/pn22fuB7S0

Or on your favourite platform: @eupublishing
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[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@highlandbook1 Delighted to have been chosen as part of the short list.

[Highland Book Prize @HighlandBkPrize]

📣 Announcing the 2021 Highland Book Prize Shortlist! 📣

We are so excited to share with you the four books that have been shortlisted from an outstanding longlist ✨

Read what our judging panel said about the selection process and the books here: https://t.co/urgFv4BDcZ

[PaisleyBookFest @BookPaisley]

New Blog: Dr @peggybrunache talked to independent historian, David Alston about his new book ‘Slaves and Highlanders – Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean’.

Read here👉https://t.co/EMMeKe4Axj

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

Echoes of Guyana: Scotland’s Forgotten Slave Colony https://t.co/JOnnpe8yPz

[@ResearchErasmus @ResearchErasmus]

#PBF2022 tonight - Scotland and the Legacy of Slavery - @peggybrunache in conversation with David Alston - what an amazing event.
For aficionados of Scottish History, his new book 'Slaves and Highlanders - silenced histories of Scotland and the Caribbean' is an absolute must read

[PaisleyBookFest @BookPaisley]

David Alston reads from his new book Slaves and Highlanders, including the clearances of Raasay and some of the ways we can recover the silenced histories of individuals who were enslaved.

#PBF2022
#StoriesMakUs

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

https://t.co/QoqZCZJRb7 Interview with Dr Miranda Melcher now online at New Books Network

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@RuairidhMaciver @RTSScotland @IainMacKinnon75 @HearaichHerald @karly_kehoe Many congratulations, Ruaridh. Well deserved.

[David Alston @DavidAl87581942]

@diana_paton Frasers of Reelig. See Kathy Fraser’s For the Love of a Highland Home; my Slaves and Highlandets; Stephen Foster’s A Private Empire.