Slavery and Scotland:  The Case of the Highland Estate of Glenaladale

RESCHEDULED

Starting in 1772, large groups of Catholics from the Scottish Highlands began moving across the Atlantic to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton Island. But where did they get the money to make this move? In this talk, Dr. Karly Kehoe will highlight the complex links between the Highlands of Scotland, Caribbean enslavement, and settler colonialism in this contested colonial space.

Karly Kehoe is Professor of History at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Her work focuses on Scottish and Irish migration, colonial privilege and settler colonialism in the British Atlantic world. She is the co-editor of the Histories of the Scottish Atlantic book series with Edinburgh University Press, chairperson of the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her most recent book, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

RSVP: Slavery and Scotland:  The Case of the Highland Estate of Glenaladale | Dr. Karly Kehoe – Fill out form