http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT Edinburgh built on slavery en Tue, 19 May 2026 19:36:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19140#post-292016 Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:06:40 +0000 unhurt 292016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm think there is a distinction between bonded labour (vile as it is) and the institution of chattel slavery as inflicted on black slaves - presumably coal miners children weren't sold away from them to other mines, women bred like farm animals, punishments of extraordinary brutality at the whim of the owner etc. I'm guessing that however unevenly applied there were rights under the law that meant a salt boiler or bonded woman could be murdered? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19140#post-292004 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:38:31 +0000 gembo 292004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Even later if women as bondaged labour included. Source is Sue Glover's play The Bondagers </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19140#post-291995 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:42:10 +0000 I were right about that saddle 291995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice, @gembo.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/britain#zoom=15&amp;lng=-3.201957&amp;lat=55.956888" rel="nofollow">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/britain#zoom=15&amp;lng=-3.201957&amp;lat=55.956888</a></p> <p>Slavery in Scotland only ended in 1799 when coal miners and salt-boilers (and their children) ceased to be the chattels of the mine and pan owners. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19140#post-291991 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:21:21 +0000 miak 291991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'Scottish Widows' received around 40% of all compensation for the 'freeing' of their assets when slavery was abolished. <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13094039.Secret_shame__The_Scots_who_made_a_fortune_from_abolition_of_slavery/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13094039.Secret_shame__The_Scots_who_made_a_fortune_from_abolition_of_slavery/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19140#post-291956 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:28:10 +0000 gembo 291956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A familiar topic to anyone who knows me. India Steet, Jamaica Mews etc, not called these names by accident. Before that Scottish peasants were also very expendable (see also Irish).</p> <p>If interested the great brewing professor Geoff Palmer is giving an Edinburgh World Heritage Lecture on this topic 25.10.18 at Canongate Kirk 18.00-20.00 </p>