Listen to David Alston discuss the Dick Bequest on The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson Medi a Time to send back the money? North-east ‘slave’ fund interview special.
'The Guyana Maroons, 1796–1834: Persistent and Resilient until the End of Slavery' in Slavery & Abolition (2023) at this link.įorthcoming (August 2023): 'Christian Robertson (1780–1842) and a Highland network in the Caribbean: a study of complicity' in Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities (Edited by Chris Dalglish, Karly Kehoe, Annie Tindley), EUP 2023. James Walvin, Family and Community History Journal (October 2022) timely and forms a revisionary contribution not only to Scottish history, but to our wider understanding of the centrality of slavery in the shaping of the West on the back of enslaved Africans.' 'David Alston's book adds substantially to out understanindg in a number of different and imaginative ways.
An informative book based solidly in research but immensely accessible.' From his local, Cromarty, base the author engages forcefully with major historiographical debates relating to Scottish participation in the slave economy and challenges presentations of this in tourist literature and major heritage institutions. 'The best book to date on Scottish involvement in chattel slavery and the impact of the gains from this on Highland Scotland. David Alston's Slaves & Highlanders Sharing my research on Highland Scots, enslaved Africans, and the plantations of GUYANAĭavid Alston’s Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean, which won the Saltire Society History Book of the Year before going on to claim the overall Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year prize, was described by the judges as:
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