In 1836 he supported the petition of 30,000 residents of the city to end the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indies that had continued a form of slavery after its formal abolition by Parliament in 1834. Theatrical walking tour to explore the legacy of Glasgow’s radical women. The City Chambers is one of most impressive buildings in Scotland. Cunninghame had interests in both the Virginia tobacco trade and the West Indies sugar trade. 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. Andrew Buchanan (1690- 1759) and his two younger brothers had, by 1730, established a firm, Andrew Buchanan, Bros & Co, which was the largest tobacco importer in Glasgow. Amongst their wares were refined and expensive sugar products such as candies, syrup and treacle. There’s much to be proud of, but there are some darker aspects to this city’s past, including the shameful part it played in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Glasgow’s connection to slavery was obscured. … In time the Necropolis became the most fashionable place to be buried in the burgeoning Victorian city. School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan. He began to lay out a new street called Virginia Street in 1753, although he died before his son, George Buchanan of Mount Vernon (1728-62), built the opulent mansion. The Tobacco Lords were said to stroll around the Tontine Piazza, resplendent in their scarlet cloaks and gold tipped canes. The older Ramshorn cemetery, now partly covered by Ingram Street, was the ‘fashionable’ – and expensive – place to be buried in Glasgow in the eighteenth century. It opened in 1753 with the financial help of Glassford and Archibald Ingram (c.1699-1770), another Tobacco Lord. Glasgow Necropolis was modelled on Pere-Lachaise in Paris and has been described as one of the true marvels of historic Glasgow. On the topmost triangle on the main façade a statue of Queen Victoria is flanked by native peoples bringing gifts from the Empire. His successor, Adam Smith (1723-90), attacked slavery on economic and moral grounds as the ‘vilest of all states’. Not all Scots supported slavery though. 454 likes. This was the old Merchants House which was used as a look-out for merchants awaiting the arrival of their cargoes from Virginia and the West Indies. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) studied there and his lectures, after he was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1729, provided a moral critique of slavery, which inspired abolitionists on a global scale. Reminders of Scotland’s part in slavery are hidden in plain sight. He was involved in other industries such as Pollokshaws printing and the Glasgow tanworks. Great Britain’s economic development was built on trade with her colonies and this is dramatically portrayed in the Chambers’ architecture. 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. 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. All 12 of the statues of scientists, soldiers, writers, politicians and royals have a variety of connections to slavery and abolition. A VIRTUAL tour exploring Edinburgh’s “hidden” links to slavery through poetry is one of the events kicking off this year’s Book Week Scotland. The University of Glasgow is a registered Scottish charity: Registration Number SC004401. for Glasgow. It raised some funds from slave … The legacy of the extraordinary wealth that Glasgow accumulated on the back of enslaved labour is woven into the city’s physical environment and material culture. This tour is presented as part of a series of three tours, the Warm Welcome Walks 2020, organised by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. “We should be deeply uncomfortable about what happened, and about Glasgow’s role was. The Square’s position however, as the mercantile headquarters of Glasgow was short-lived, as the leading merchants gradually moved west in the early nineteenth century. No.42 was subsequently occupied by other prominent merchants such as Robert Findlay of Easterhill (1748-1802), a tobacco importer who lived there from 1780 until 1802. This tour of Glasgow’s City Centre and Merchant City tells a story of the built heritage, the tobacco merchants’ legacy and the Slave Trade and its abolition. Slavery Act Disclosure ... Johnston & Company (Laphroaig) Ltd, Springburn Bond, Carlisle St, Glasgow G21 1EQ, registered in the United Kingdom, registration number SC028072. “But we need Glaswegians, and future generations of them, to have a sense of comfort in confronting it - comfort in understanding that this is something we cannot ignore. This week we are hosting our first-ever event at which refugees and asylum seekers can meet housing providers. This five-storey, crow-stepped gabled, building was owned by Robert McNair (1703-79) and his wife, Jean Holmes (b 1703) who were prominent shopkeepers in eighteenth century Glasgow. It helped fund his education, after many universities in the USA had rejected him, demonstrating Glasgow University’s long and honourable history as a place of learning for the disenfranchised and the dispossessed. A later guest of the same society was the Rev. The Trongate, named after the old public weigh beam or ‘tron’ at its east end, was one of the original eight streets in Glasgow before the city’s eighteenth century expansion. Its is a striking symbol of Victorian Glasgow’s claim to be the second city of the Empire. The only one of its kind to survive, the house, a small scale interpretation of the mansions designed by Andrea Palladio in Italy’s Veneto region, illustrates the eighteenth century living conditions of ‘average’ merchants – sometimes called Tobacco Lairds in contrast with the grander Palladian homes of the much wealthier Tobacco Lords. ALL 12 of the statues of scientists, soldiers, writers, politicians and royals in George Square in Glasgow have a variety of connections to slavery and abolition. is represented by the memorial to the Rev. However, complete abolition of slavery did not come until 1833. Described as ‘one of the most splendid houses in the west of Scotland’, it stood in stark contrast to the semi-rural conditions that prevailed close to the centre of Glasgow. Sign of the times: Glasgow’s slavery profits in the spotlight. As a consequence there are few objects that directly relate to slavery … After escaping slavery in 1838 by going to New York, he became a brilliant orator and tireless freedom fighter alongside members of his family. Michael Morris: Confronting Scotland's legacy of slavery. Sugar boiling was one of the mainstays of Glasgow’s fast-growing economy in the second half of the seventeenth century. The Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1822 and the city was known as one of the staunchest abolitionist cities in Britain. By Brian Ferguson Friday, 22nd January 2021, 3:50 pm As a consequence there are few objects that directly relate to slavery in the city’s museums. Wardlaw’s sermons and speeches about the evils of slavery were not always popular because of Glasgow’s longstanding connections with the West Indies and led to a decline in membership of his church and attacks in the press. Much of Glasgow's grandest architecture was created off the back of slavery. Plot 6 was acquired by Mr Robert Hastie,‘an extensive American merchant’, on 6th May 1772. Completed in 1890 its grandeur reflects what was then the most powerful empire in the world. The mansion was sold in 1770 to another tobacco merchant connected with the same family. 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. Its establishment testifies to the city’s early development due to slavery and slave dependant trade. In addition, they employed their cousin, Richard Oswald of Auchincruive (1705-84) as their factor in the Caribbean and Virginia before he returned to Glasgow in 1741 as a junior partner in their firm. The building, one of the most important in the city, demonstrated the important link between the colonial trade in tobacco and sugar and Glasgow’s continuing economic growth in the nineteenth century. Yet like other major ports on the Atlantic seaboard such as Bristol and Liverpool, much of the city’s early wealth was built on a global trade which ran on slave labour. GLASGOW.- Glasgow Life, the charity that manages the city’s museums and collections, has appointed Miles Greenwood as its first Curator focussing on the legacies of slavery and empire, to continue to tell the story of the impact the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and the British Empire has had on Glasgow. In September 2018 Glasgow University, in a welcome move, published a report into its historical links to slavery, acknowledging that, although the university did not invest directly in the slave trade, it did receive donations from those who did. Another Tobacco Lord, he was involved in the West Indian sugar trade, banking, printing and the iron industry. The illustrated walking tour A new walking tour exploring Glasgow’s links to the Transatlantic slave trade has been launched as part of this year’s Doors Open Day Festival. These rooms, which included a hotel, coffee room and assembly hall, became the social and commercial headquarters of Glasgow at a time when this area was fashionable and affluent. Contact us With the continued spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice — in alignment with University policy — will suspend all programs and tours effective Wednesday, March 11th. The famous Tontine heads were located above ten arches on the Tontine, and survive to this day (in the garden at Provand’s Lordship). The stately homes, street names, buildings, and statues across the country tie us to this terrible past. The first of its kind in Scotland, it gave tuition in drawing, painting, engraving and sculpture. Both, of course, were built entirely on slave labour. 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 … Jamaica was Glasgow’s premier sugar producing centre. When Glassford died in his mansion he was more than £50,000 in debt, ruined by his losses in America. Andrew Buchanan purchased the land now known as Buchanan Street in 1760, and lived there for a number of years. St David’s Church, at no. Always recruiting volunteers please get in touch. Over half a million people signed the welcoming address to her lecture tour of Great Britain. ... (a prominent figure in the movement to abolish slavery). Josiah Henson (1789-1883), a slave who had escaped to Canada in 1830 and was the inspiration for the fictitious ‘Uncle Tom’. Oswald, who came from a merchant family which had been deeply involved in the tobacco and sugar trades since the 1730s, served as a Glasgow MP from the time of the 1832 Reform Act. 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. Local academic Stephen Mullen has been uncovering some of these darker aspects by hosting a series of Sunday walking tours around Glasgow during October for Black History Month. After a series of lecture tours in the USA, Douglass spent two years on a circuit of churches, chapels and lectures throughout Great Britain and Ireland between 1846 and 1848. Earlier this year, Glasgow Life appointed its first curator to look specifically at the legacies of slavery and the British Empire. He proposed the idea for The Necropolis in 1828, and The Merchants House took control of the project. 0:11 Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds PEGGY BRUNACHE: For over 300 years, British people were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Caribbean and Americas. Our tour begins at Glasgow Cathedral where some 18th century mercantile families sought to immortalise themselves in stained glass windows and tombs. Its importance in the road to emancipation is demonstrated by the career of James McCune Smith (1813-65), who became the first African American to graduate MD anywhere and was also the first to practise medicine in the USA. Richard Oswald and Co. applied to the town council in 1756 regarding the purchase of land surrounding their bottle works at the Broomielaw, which had been operating since 1730. Glasgow’s Glassford Street (after the Glassford family) and Virginia Street (after the American Colony where many plantations were) are a legacy of this dark chapter. The street was also the location of the later Town Hall and the Tontine rooms, which in the 1780s became the social and commercial headquarters of Glasgow, at a time when this area was fashionable and affluent. After escaping slavery in 1838 by going to New York, he became a brilliant orator and tireless freedom fighter alongside members of his family. The legacy of slavery in the UK should be studied, starting with universities acknowledging their own history Tue 18 Sep 2018 13.49 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Sep 2018 13.50 EDT Share on Facebook Event listings. The tour tries to use the statues to demonstrate that it’s not just a question of individual slave-traders, but that slavery and abolition are woven through George Square’s public memory of commerce, politics, science, militarism, industrialisation, academia and literature. Via BBC Two Cities such as Bristol and Liverpool have gone much further than us in recognising their part in slavery. They are both buried at Glasgow Cathedral, testimony to their position in society and their loyalty to the government during the Jacobite rebellion in 1745-6. Ramsay is also a co-lead on Black History Month walking tours commissioned by Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights, highlighting the historical links between Glasgow’s built heritage and the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery, empire and colonisation. The globe, with a sailing ship, flanked by two female figures, which adorns the top storey of the building wascopied from the original Merchant’s Steeple (1665) near the Trongate. As well as a legacy here in Glasgow there are reminders of Scotland’s part in slavery in many former colonies. It was not an area for Glasgow citizens of a lower social scale. By 1830, Wardlaw had rejected the moderate stance which saw the abolition of slavery as a gradual process and became the leading Scottish campaigner for immediate abolition. Glasgow Anti-Slavery Group. She believes there is a lingering sense of “discomfort” in Glasgow around the legacy of slavery. 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 … It was here that the early merchants Theatrical walking tour to explore the legacy of Glasgow’s radical women. Frankie Boyle finds out more. It was opened in 1833, the idea of James Ewing, a prominent West Indian merchant. ALL 12 of the statues of scientists, soldiers, writers, politicians and royals in George Square in Glasgow have a variety of connections to slavery and abolition. Goods were weighed at the Tolbooth on their way to merchants’ warehouses – a demonstration of Glasgow’s role in what is sometimes called a ‘warehouse economy’. The Oswald family, who have links to both the slave trade and the abolition movement, have a burial plot within the Cathedral. Glasgow, Scotland – When abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrived in Scotland on a speaking tour in 1846 from the United States, 13 years had passed since Britain enacted the Slavery Abolition Act. The fabric of … A square of three-storey townhouses, described as ‘perfect examples of elegance and splendour’, was laid out around the Church in 1787 ‘for the use and resort of merchants and others’. Neil Jamieson, Glassford’s factor, was also involved in the slave trade to the Carolinas. Without slavery, Glasgow wouldn't exist. The University of Glasgow is a registered Scottish charity: Registration Number SC004401. It is therefore no surprise that the street was given this name by West Indian merchants in Glasgow. Ewing’s father, also James Ewing, owned the largest sugar plantation in Jamaica. 25/07/2017. Ewing junior assumed control in 1814. It fast became the centre of commercial life in Glasgow, trading in commodities such as coal, iron, cotton, sugar and chemicals. There is a stained-glass memorial to Alexander Spiers of Elderslie (1714-82), one of the original Tobacco Lords and sometimes called ‘the mercantile god of Glasgow’. British ships made over 11,000 journeys that we know of, forcibly transporting almost three million men, women, and children to slavery. Video, 00:01:47 Glasgow's slave trade past is all around us School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan. The Church of St Andrews in the Square was constructed from 1739 to 1756, at a cost of £15,000 to £20,000, a huge sum. This week Scottish Refugee Council is hosting its first-ever event at which refugees and asylum…. Glasgow's slavery links revealed by interactive walking tour, September 2020, News, Architecture and the built environment is an integral part of our society and we hope to provide a useful platform for debate, information and inspiration. The West George Street chapel sat just south of the modern Queen Street railway station. Glasgow is the only Atlantic city in the UK without a memorial to slavery or a permanent museum exhibition about the topic. The legacy of the extraordinary wealth that Glasgow accumulated on the back of enslaved labour is woven into the city’s physical environment and material culture. Cunninghame had the motto emergo – to emerge – etched on the mansion, a boast of his own rapid rise in society. 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. Citizens of lesser standing moved out of their way. Both the tobacco trade and the West Indian sugar trade, in which the family also had interests depended on slave labour. in Glasgow had their commercial headquarters. The stately homes, street names, buildings, and statues across the country tie us to this terrible past. Andrew, appointed Lord Provost twice in 1740-42, was one of the consortium of merchants which founded the Ship Bank, Glasgow’s first bank, in 1750. Ironically, the Oswalds’ nephew, James, was an M.P who supported a petition moving for the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in 1836. a third major phase of its history, as the Gallery of Modern Art. This tour of Glasgow’s City Centre and Merchant City tells a story of the built heritage, the tobacco merchants’ legacy and the Slave Trade and its abolition. She appeared in Glasgow as a guest of the Glasgow Female New Association for the Abolition of Slavery. In the 19th century, Glasgow’s connection to slavery was obscured. 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. Alexander Speirs of Elderslie (1714-1782), sometimes called ‘the mercantile god of Glasgow’, married Mary Buchanan in 1755. From there, cargoes would go to English and European markets, particularly France. The Virginia Galleries, in Virginia Street, sat at the centre of what was once the commercial heart of Glasgow. The Galleries, built from 1817 until 1819, were originally the Tobacco Exchange, and later the Sugar Exchange. As slavery was abolished, the British government decided that each slave owner (and there were tens of thousands up and down the country) was entitled to a … The Shawfield Mansion at the bottom of modern day Glassford Street faced onto Argyle Street. By Dr Michael Morris. The Buchanans had considerable wealth and social status in 18th century Glasgow, and Andrew was a leading partner in both‘Buchanan, Hastie and Co.’ and ‘Andrew Buchanan and Co.’ for a time two of the most powerful Virginia trading firms, although they folded in 1777 due to financial difficulties. Unlike many in the Buchanan family, he died with his fortune still intact. The Merchants House is an impressive monument to Glasgow’s global trading. After moving to London in 1746, Richard branched out into horses, sugar and slaves, including four plantations in the Caribbean, over 30,000 acres in East Florida, and Bance Island in Sierra Leone, which he used as a base for transporting Africans into slavery in South Carolina. Most Scottish slavers were based in Jamaica; about a third of the country’s white population were Scottish, and to this day there are several Scottish place names in Jamaica: Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and two Culloden’s! In Glasgow’s ‘golden age of tobacco’, it was central to the development of the city’s commerce across the world. A side which is deeply rooted in its past, buried under years of commercial development and regeneration – Glasgow’s role in the slave trade. There was another side of the story of their success as the West Indies sugar trade was built on slave labour from plantations in Jamaica, which were owned and overseen by Scots. 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. In 1996 the building entered Close to here is the ‘Bridgegate’ or ‘Briggait’ and the Merchants’ Steeple. The Tontine rooms, were located in what is now the Trongate. The Cunninghame Mansion, now at the core of the Gallery of Modern Art, in Royal Exchange Square, was built for William Cunninghame of Lainshaw (d.1789), one of Glasgow’s most prominent eighteenth century merchants. An organisation of Glasgow merchants was established in the seventeenth century. Alexander was the chapel’s first patron. Glasgow, Scotland – When abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrived in Scotland on a speaking tour in 1846 from the United States, 13 years had … In spite of such strong connections, Scotland and Glasgow need to do more to recognise their role in this period. The “Equal Justice Initiative” founded the museum. Various prominent Glasgow merchants were amongst the original subscribers to what was, in effect, the forerunner of the later Royal Exchange. He became a Vice Director of The Glasgow Emancipation Society, which focused its attentions on America. He also served as Lord Provost, Lord Dean of Guild and was an M.P. ‘The Old Sugar House’ was built in 1699 and named ‘Easter Sugar House’ to distinguish it from another sugar refinery nearby. To view the Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour website, please click here. Contact us If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Maiyah Gamble-Rivers trudged through the snow one recent afternoon to get to a highlight on the Slavery & Legacy walking tour at Brown University. January 20, 2021 The financial success of the Kilmarnock edition is sometimes cited by commentators as the reason why Burns did not go to Jamaica; but this is a … is named, is located at the entrance. Recent years have seen wider acknowledgement of Glasgow’s role as a former second city of the empire, through books like Stephen Mullen’s It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow And Slavery and several exhibitions and walking tours exploring how the area benefitted from the slave trade. He spent £10,000, a huge sum, on his townhouse. Many streets we know well, such as Ingram and Buchanan, bear the name of slavers. This history includes the enslavement of African-Americans, racial lynchings, segregation, and racial bias. The Tobacco Merchant’s House, at 42 Miller Street, is the oldest surviving house in the Merchant City. The memorial – a … We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Cunninghame purchased three plots in what is now Queen Street but was then Cow Loan, a country track. A variety of prominent merchants were buried there, including two Tobacco Lords, John Glassford (1715-83) and Andrew Buchanan (1690-1759), one of the founders of The Ship Bank, Glasgow’s first bank. X ... A VIRTUAL TOUR WITH JOHN CAMPBELL. An Act of Parliament in 1768 suggested the cost was met by the magistrates and council. Buchanan Street, arguably the most potent symbol of modern Glasgow’s image as a cosmopolitan city, is named after the Tobacco Lord, Andrew Buchanan (1725-1783). Glasgow has a heritage of supporting equality, backing radical change and speaking out for the voiceless in society. Virginia Street and ‘The Virginia Mansion’, which was situated on the site of the modern-day Corinthian in Ingram Street, were a testament to the wealth and influence of successive generations of the same Glasgow merchant family. On the walls are carvings of Neptune, and ornate compass drawings, with the Glasgow coat of arms – all helping reinforce the historic role of Glasgow as the second city of the world’s most powerful Empire. They included John Glassford (1715-83) and George Bogle of Daldowie (1700-84). Laphroaig® Single Malt Whisky, 43% alc./vol. The UWI and University of Glasgow develop free online course on history and legacy of British slavery in the Caribbean Posted: October 07, 2020 A new free online course is being launched to investigate the history of British colonial slavery in the Caribbean, reflecting its … The Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow report was co-authored by Prof Simon Newman and Dr Stephen Mullen, and examined the … The same society hired a series of American black abolitionist lecturers before and after Harriet’s visit, Those before included J.W. Smith was a leading member of The Glasgow Emancipation Society, which campaigned for universal emancipation. Sadly these families would have made their fortunes from plantation profits and the slave trade. Ms Njenga said: "Glasgow used to be 13 streets but because of the wealth of the slave traders it expanded. Beecher Stowe (1811-96) was an American abolitionist and novelist, whose novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, sold over 300,000 copies in the USA in the first year after it was published in 1852. The tour then led us to the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and St Andrews in the Square Church revealing a past that I never knew about. GLASGOW.- Glasgow Life, the charity that manages the city’s museums and collections, has appointed Miles Greenwood as its first Curator focussing on the legacies of slavery and empire, to continue to tell the story of the impact the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and the British Empire has had on Glasgow. Instead, we pride ourselves on letting you discover Scotland's cities and towns through a local's eyes. ... A NEW dramatic tour through Glasgow’s streets is set to remember the lives of the city’s radical women leaders. ... (a prominent figure in the movement to abolish slavery). Glasgow Cathedral, also known as ‘St Mungo’s’ or ‘The High Church’ is the oldest church in Glasgow and has various memorials to tobacco and sugar merchants, despite the fact that both trades were built largely on slave labour. Constructed at a cost of £10,000 for the Congregational Church and capable of holding 1,600 people, its first pastor was the Rev. 454 likes. The common entrance to a subsequent tenemental development formed part of the modern entry to Buchanan Street at Argyle Street. Since 2007, Stephen Mullen, historian and author of ‘ It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery ’, has studied Glasgow’s mercantile past, with particular focus on the city’s connections to slave trading within the Empire. It could be assumed that tobacco merchants contributed to this cost; the Spanish mahogany interior was imported by these merchants. Speirs began his career in Virginia as a plantation owner and returned to Glasgow in the 1750s, already a rich man. 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 … Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was an African American who, after escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, became a leading campaigner in the Foreign and American Anti-Slavery Society. Many merchants were buried there. A native of Paisley, Glassford’s rise in Glasgow society was spectacular, even though he probably did not begin trading in tobacco until the 1730s. 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