From tales of the notorious inmates at the infamous Duke Street Prison to Glasgow's foundations as a city built on the back of slavery, walk in the footsteps of Glasgow's dark side. READ MORE: Calls for anti-racist education to be taught in Scottish schools. Leith in Edinburgh and Glasgow were popular ports from which ambitious Scottish men sailed to make their fortunes as slave masters. While at Paisley Museum, Greenwood created a Black History tour exploring the town’s links to the slave trade. This site is managed by curatorial staff at Glasgow Museums. Glasgow City Chambers. Despite media publications at the time of Abolition in 1833 professing that "not one brick of Glasgow" was built on the broken backs of enslaved people, the history books beg to differ. The owning of personal slaves was banned in Scotland in 1778 and The Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1822. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. A new tour guide to Edinburgh's historic architecture and landscape is set to lift the lid on how the city is inextricably linked with slavery. We offer a daily City Centre and Street Art tours. Buy Slaves tickets from Ticketmaster UK. Duncan Dornan With this site we aim to draw attention to them and explore the ways in which they can shine a light on Glasgow’s relationship with transatlantic slavery during the 17th to 19th centuries. With this site we aim to draw attention to them and explore the ways in which they can shine a light on Glasgow’s relationship with transatlantic slavery during the 17 th to 19 th centuries. The main thoroughfares built by merchants so they could have comfortable passage from their palatial homes to the counting rooms that totted up their wealth, the parks built as play areas for their wives and children and the commercial buildings rising from the piles of bodies of enslaved Africans are all a legacy of Glasgow, and Scotland's, heavy involvement in the slave trade. Take the University of Glasgow, for example, one of whose most historic figures, a former student and rector, went on to use his education to assist in the lucrative tax affairs of the slave trade. Why it's laid out as it is? Scots were so well regarded for their cruelty they were in high demand to run plantations where the average survival rate for enslaved people was three to five years, they were worked so hard. In my role as a tour guide with this company, I have developed excellent customer relations skills, as I interact with a great variety of people from all over the world on a daily basis. Legacies of all these things are woven into the fabric of our physical environment and our material culture. Get involved with the news in your community, This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice. This tour will introduce objects from the collection which illuminate Glasgow's part in slavery between Africa, America and the Caribbean during the 1700s. Built by industry and its working class, the city has always been infamous for its drugs and gangs. Private Glasgow West End Tour: Arts and Culture (From $257.13) Glasgow Afternoon Tea Experience (From $51.82) Bespoke 5 day Tour - your personal itinerary (From $3,648.44) Glasgow Gin Tea Experience (From $64.88) 5-Day Isle of Skye, Oban, St Andrews and North West Highlands Tour … CRER organises Black History Month, an annual event that counters the hidden histories of African, Caribbean and Asian people in Scotland. Visit us. A city well-known for its dark side, Glasgow has a lot of secrets. Go Glasgow sightseeing by open-top double-decker bus on a City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off tour. The World Slavery Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in support of their fifth album, Powerslave, beginning in Warsaw, Poland on 9 August 1984 and ending in Irvine, California on 5 July 1985. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. It reveals the hidden clues of the great wealth and prosperity of Glasgow which is inextricably linked to the exploitation of African Slaves and black people from the former British Empire. But Scotland was also home to slaves who were great instigators in winning their freedom. We are also indebted to Dr Stephen Mullen’s book It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery which guided us on our tour of Glasgow’s less-than-savoury past. And by implication, so is the brutality, suffering and exploitation inflicted on the enslaved in the process. The tour took us to the original sight of The Old College in Glasgow, which was singled out for praise by the leaders of the abolitionist movement for its campaigning role. READ MORE: Every Scottish street linked to slave-trade revealed - find your address. Contact us; Legal. 454 likes. Glasgow Life, which manages 11 museum sites, has appointed a curator to focus on the city’s links to the slave trade. The Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1822 and the city was known as one of the staunchest abolitionist cities in Britain. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here, Every Scottish street linked to slave-trade revealed - find your address. The University of Glasgow is a registered Scottish charity: Registration Number SC004401. Ms Blake said: "Slavery is not in the past because even today people are benefitting from it. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . How well do you know your city? Head of Museums and Collections It aims to showcase the collections held by Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections which relate to black history in general and slavery in particular. Contact us It is a history that needs to be remembered, argue Ms Blake and Ms Njenga. Many objects and documents in Glasgow Museums’ collection, the City Archives and Special Collections testify in one way or another to this grim part of our collective heritage. What's OnA brand new tour information to Edinburgh's historic structure and panorama is ready to raise the lid on Edinburgh’s slave trade past exposed in new city tour guide | … Without slavery, Glasgow as we know it wouldn’t exist today. This short tour through imperial Glasgow winded through the ‘Merchant City’. The trade in sugar with the West Indies became increasingly important to Glasgow after the problems with the tobacco trade. Glasgow is celebrated for its art, academia and song, its multiculturalism and its warmth but scrape that surface and you'll find a different story lurking beneath. It aims to showcase the collections held by Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections which relate to black history in general and slavery in particular. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images. In his role as curator, legacies of slavery and empire, Miles Greenwood will work with colleagues to create new displays demonstrating how enslaved labour is “woven into the city’s physical environment and material culture”. The tour is designed by Stephen Mullen, research associate in history at the University of Glasgow and put together by Christine Whyte, lecturer in global history at the University of Glasgow. This is true for Glasgow as much as it is for Scotland as a nation. Exactly what is a ‘Merchant City’? Throughout October they held a Sunday walking tour around Glasgow's city centre and its mercantile past, examining its sinister entanglement with the Transatlantic slave trade. After escaping slavery in 1838 by going to New York, he became a brilliant orator and tireless freedom fighter alongside members of his family. Our city changed as a result of slavery – the extraordinary wealth which Glasgow accumulated on the back of enslaved labour is embedded in the city we live in today. Slaves 2021-22 tour dates, event details + much more. View Kelvingrove.GlasgowMuseums’s profile on Facebook, View @KelvingroveArt’s profile on Twitter, Legacies of Slavery in Glasgow Museums and Collections. Except, he had a "tour guide" says Ms Njenga, who cleared the explorers path through the undergrowth, as seen on the statue. Historians have argued that Scotland’s relationship with transatlantic slavery is enveloped in a sort of ‘collective amnesia’ – a widespread lack of awareness of how our country participated in both the slave trade and slavery. It raised some funds from slave-owning Presbyterian churchesin the United States. After the publication of his 1845 autobiography, ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’, he lived in Edinburgh in 1846-7 while he made a speaking tour … Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies | Beniba Eòlas na Tràillealachd. The fabric of this pace is weaved by these people. Without slavery, Glasgow wouldn't exist. In 1807, the slave trade in British Colonies became illegal and British ships were no longer allowed to carry slaves. Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. This grew into events as part of Glasgow’s Doors Open Days and a … If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. Many people felt that the Free Church was therefore sympatheticto the slave-owners and opposed to the emancipation of the slaves. A tax only paid off in 2015 by all of us. The owning of personal slaves was banned in Scotland in 1778 and The Glasgow Anti-Slavery … This article was written in October 2019 during Black History Month. Accessibility statement; Freedom of information; FOI publica Exactly what is a ‘Merchant City’? Contact us In his role as curator, legacies of slavery and empire, Miles Greenwood will work with colleagues to create new displays demonstrating how enslaved labour is “woven into the city’s physical environment and material culture”. During his tour of Scotland in 1846 Frederick Douglass, theformerly enslaved anti-slavery campaigner, demanded that the FreeChurch 'send back the money'. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Aimed at Primary 6/7 and Secondary 1-3, these workshops now take place at the People’s Palace and the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and focus on the role Glasgow played during the transatlantic slave trade and how its legacy is still very visible nowadays in the shape of buildings like GoMA, which was once home to William Cunninghame, a prominent figure in Glasgow’s 18 th century slave economy. No-one says ‘Slave Merchant City’, or ‘Slave produce Merchant City’ so it is important to keep in mind what a ‘Merchant City’ actually was. These men, and the others like them, wielded political power, Buchanan as Lord Provost and Oswald, as one of the brokers of 1782's Treaty of Paris. These stereotypes are harmful to everybody". After the publication of his 1845 autobiography, ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’, he lived in Edinburgh in 1846-7 while he made a speaking tour of Britain. Bus tickets … Glasgow's Black History Tour involves a guided walking tour centring on the Merchant City area of the city. In 2007, Glasgow Built Preservation Trust (GBPT), in partnership with Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance, developed an exhibition linking Glasgow’s built heritage with the slave trade. They were involved up to their neck.". We also offer private walking tours. After escaping slavery in 1838 by going to New York, he became a brilliant orator and tireless freedom fighter alongside members of his family. Glasgow’s – and Scotland’s – associations with the slave trade began in haste following the 1707 Act of Union, which saw Scotland and England unite to form Great Britain. The propagandist statue was built to distance Glasgow from its slaving past - here was a Scot who not only discovered the continent but saved Africans through Christianity in the process, so the story goes. media caption Many streets in Glasgow city centre are named after slave-owning plantation owners. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. In 1778 the courts took the monumental step of banning slavery in Scotland prompted by Joseph Knight – a household servant in Scotland who ran away and when caught attempted to prove his freedom. Glasgow Life/Glasgow Museums, For more information on Glasgow Museums’ collections please visit http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/. Ironically, Glasgow University fought to end the transatlantic slave trade. Furthermore, I have also developed a specialised historical tour of Glasgow for this company which focuses on Glasgow's links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In Glasgow, so many streets are named after plantation owner who, in turn, owned hundreds of slaves. No-one says ‘Slave Merchant City’, or ‘Slave produce Merchant City’ so it is important to keep in mind what a ‘Merchant City’ actually was. In the 18th century, Scotland saw the grotesque wealth England was amassing as a result of the triangular slave trade - enslaved people exchanged for goods then sold into servitude and their crops returned to be traded. Always recruiting volunteers please get in touch. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Glasgow Life, which manages 11 museum sites, has appointed a curator to focus on the city’s links to the slave trade.. It raised some funds from slave … media caption Many streets in Glasgow city centre are named after slave-owning plantation owners. At the David Livingstone statue in Cathedral Square, guides Anabelle Njenga and Yvonne Blake point out the friezes that encircle the celebrated adventurer and missionary credited for converting many African countries to Christianity. 'Slavery and Glasgow' displays selected highlights of an exhibition about Glasgow's connections with slavery and the abolition of slavery, and was launched to coincide with Black History Month, 2002. The Scottish Archive Network also hosts an online exhibition of items held by Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections that relate to Glasgow’s links with slavery and black history more generally. OPEN NOW! She said: "Let Glasgow flourish on the children thrown as bait to the crocodiles, on the women being raped and torn away from their breastfeeding children. Slavery in Great Britain existed prior to the Roman occupation and until the 12th century, when chattel slavery disappeared, at least for a time, following the Norman Conquest.Former indigenous slaves merged into the larger body of serfs in Britain and no longer were recognised separately in law or custom. Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies | Beniba Eòlas na Tràillealachd. Throughout October they held a Sunday walking tour around Glasgow's city centre and its mercantile past, examining its sinister entanglement with the Transatlantic slave trade. Whose names are immortalised on the streets that dissect its heart? Glasgow's slaving past has to be acknowledged for the country to be able to move forward, say campaigners. In his role as curator, legacies of slavery and empire, Miles Greenwood will work with colleagues to create new displays demonstrating how enslaved labour is “woven into the city’s physical environment and material culture”. A sum of £20 million, or £17 billion in today’s money, was paid to the slavers - despite their offensive wealth - to compensate for lost trade. This brutal history is one that the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) is campaigning to have included in the Scottish Curriculum and memorialised in a museum of Empire, Slavery and Colonialism. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. The Free Church was founded in 1843 and was deprived of publicmoney. Present-day Glasgow and slavery. During his tour of Scotland in 1846 Frederick Douglass, the formerly enslaved anti-slavery campaigner, demanded that the Free Church 'send back the money'. READ MORE: Boris Johnson does not believe UK is ‘racist country’. 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