Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

JOHN D. O. FULTON is an Edinburgh-born lawyer and author who, during a forty-year legal career in property and trust law, developed an international client base with biannual visits over many years to Hong Kong, Singapore and China. His widely praised first book 66 – The House that Viewed the World was published in 2019.

Foreword by Richard Holloway, author and broadcaster; Preface; Introduction: Medieval Scotland Searches for a Modern Future; 1 Dawning of Enlightenment: The Stories of Francis Hutcheson and Lord Kames; 2 Justice for a Fellow Human Being: The Story of Lord Mansfield and James Somerset; 3 How to Value a Life: With Love or Money? The Family Story of Lord Mansfield, Dido Lindsay and the Zong Massacre; 4 Freedom of Choice: The Stories of John Wedderburn and Joseph Knight; 5 Rebel With a Cause: The Story of Robert Wedderburn; 6 Passage to America: The Story of Peter Williamson; 7 Slavery in the Bight of Africa: The Stories of Archibald Monteith and John Monteith; 8 Terrors of the Middle Passage: The Stories of Sam Robinson and James Irving; 9 The Findings of a Ship’s Surgeon: The Stories of James Ramsay and Charles Middleton; 10 The Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Stories of Henry Dundas, William Pitt and William Wilberforce; 11 Glasgow and London: The Story of Richard Oswald, a Merchant and Entrepreneur; 12 America: Slavery and a Battle for the Country’s Soul: The Story of Fanny Wright; 13 Abolition of Slavery: The Stories of John Gladstone, Zachary Macaulay and Lord Brougham; 14 Slavery in America and the Free Church of Scotland: The Story of Frederick Douglass and Dr Thomas Chalmers; 15 Two Men Who Changed America: The Stories of Allan Pinkerton and John Brown; 16 Conclusion: Why It Matters Now; Notes and References; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index.