Following our previous Zoom conference Scotland's Involvement in Slavery - the Local View in April 2021, the Scottish Local History Forum is now hosting a Zoom based conference focusing on the other side of the coin Scotland Against Slavery - the local view over two evenings on 26th and 27th April 2022 from 5pm to 7pm.

Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:00-19:00

5:00pm – Welcome and Introduction

5.15pm - Black Lives Mattered in 19th century Edinburgh: Quaker Women and the Anti-slavery Campaign
Katie Hunter

5.45pm - Two Abolitionist Poets from the Scottish Borders: John Younger (d. 1860) and John Marjoribanks (d. 1796)
Alastair Minnis

6.15pm - Ayrshire’s Contributions
Eric J Graham

6.45pm - Questions

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:00-19:00

5:00pm - Welcome

5.15pm - Destroying the Upas tree: Andrew Thomson of Edinburgh and the urgent call for immediate abolition
Iain Whyte

5.45pm - Abolitionism and Aberdeen’s Universities
Richard Anderson

6.15pm - 'Sin of Slavery’ to the ‘Cause of Freedom all over the World’: the Rev. George Gilfillan and Anti-Slavery Protest in Dundee
Aileen Black

6.45pm - Questions

Booking

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