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Previously... To make and save money: Sugar and slavery in 18th century Jamaica

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Alastair Learmont examines the motives and fortunes of two Selkirk-born doctors, William and James Chisholme, who acquired sugar estates in Jamaica in the late 18th century before becoming leading figures in the pro-slavery metropolitan Society of West Indian Planters and Merchants at the time of abolition.

Previously - Scotland's History Festival