Heritage experts claim that the slave trade is linked to Bonnie Prince Charlie’s defeat and the destruction of the Jacobite rebellion in 1746.
The Culloden site – where ‘Young Pretender’ Charles Edward Stuart’s revolt was suppressed by the Duke of Cumberland – was added to the list as Charles sailed from Nantes on a French slave ship owned by plantation owner Antoine Walsh.
A first official organization has linked the battleground near Inverness to the slave trade.
A National Trust for Scotland report said that in the aftermath of the battle descendants of defeated Scots and prisoners of war were transported to British colonies where they later owned slaves, worked ‘enslaved crews’ and managed plantations.
Heritage experts believe that the slave trade is linked to Bonnie Prince Charlie’s defeat and the destruction of the Jacobite rebellion in 1746.
The Culloden site – where ‘Young Pretender’ Charles Edward Stuart’s revolt was suppressed by the Duke of Cumberland – was added to the list as Charles sailed from Nantes on a French slave ship owned by plantation owner Antoine Walsh
This report was created in response to Black Lives Matter protests that took place in 2020. It linked over a third (or more) of NTS sites directly and indirectly with slavery trade or its abolishment.
Others, like JM Barrrie’s birthplace, can be linked to an economy that was slave-driven.
His family’s weaver’s cottage in Kirriemuir has been added because the industry produced clothing for slaves.
Scottish historian Sir Tom Devine told The Daily Telegraph that ‘every nook and cranny’ of Scottish life had been affected by the slave trade at some point and so ‘by the farcical logic of the NTS, every person of note in that period, whether slavers or not, are fair game’.