Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
David Alston Edinburgh University Press, (Edinburgh, October 2021) pp.400 Hardback, £85.00; paperback, £13.75 ISBN: 9781474427319
The legacies of slavery and empire have emerged as an important and contested issue across both Scotland and the rest of the UK. From the tearing down of statues, to the renaming of buildings and streets, or returning museum collections to their places of origin, these aspects of our history continue to have an impact on our society long after their nominal end. Publication of a new
