Emancipated Africans and African-Americans occasionally crossed paths in 19th century Scotland. A missionary network brought children ‘redeemed’ from slavery or orphans to Scotland from Africa to continue their education or learn English, who frequently connected with Black Americans engaged in the struggle to end slavery in the Americas.

This presentation looks at the role of Africans and people of African descent in these inter-linked campaigns to end slavery, reform colonial rule and challenge exclusion of Black people from social and political systems

Image reference: Johnson, Thomas L., Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or the Story of My Life in Three Continents. Click here

Dr Christine Whyte, Lecturer in Global History, University of Glasgow 

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