Kate Phillips, retired international rights specialist and author of “Bought and Sold, Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery”, considers why Robert Burns, believer in the rights of man, had plans to manage slaves in the sugar plantations of Jamaica.
Kate explains why so many young Scots sailed from Clyde ports to jobs whipping slaves in Jamaica and looks at the reasons, the risks and hardships involved, as well as the fortunes made and the children left behind as a result.
