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Max Boucher
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Scotland and enslavement
Community Support Winter Solstice Quiz 2008
1. He became James VII of Scotland. Which organisation was he in charge of?
2. Not a Scot but he helped secure the union with England,
proposed that enslaved Africans be used to improve English roads
and helped set up a slave trading company.
3. Which Scottish historian praises the British Empire while
admitting that ‘often it failed to live up to its own ideal of
individual liberty, particularly in the early era of enslavement,
transportation and the ‘’ethnic cleansing’’ of indigenous peoples.’?
4. Buried in Westminster Abbey and commemorated by a statue in the
centre of Glasgow, he was in Demerara in 1823 … doing what?
5. After staying on an island he joined the slave trader Woodes
Rogers, for a two year voyage.
6. Arriving at Glasgow Central railway station you pass over the
site of what?
7. How does the Royal Bank of Scotland owe its origins to an
attempt to profit from silver mined using slave labour?
8. Born in Greenock. His early machines, made to squash a type of
grass, inspired other applications.
9. On most North American plantations workers were forced to speak
English.. On some they were forced to speak Scots Gallic. True or
false?
10. On the pretence of seeking the abolition of the slave trade in
Africa he unleashed the scramble for it.
11. African whipped brutally by a Scot because he refused to accept
the name Toby.
12. Slave-grown product which brought wealth to Glasgow.
13. He admired the British and made plans to build a similar empire
using slave labour and ethnic cleansing. Worried, his friend did
what?
14. Plantation owner who helped secure European control of Australia.
15. Can you name a game which was developed to allow Scottish slave
traders, financiers and merchants to discuss business deals?
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