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Lord Seaforth : Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor / Finlay McKichan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474438476
  • 9781474438490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.106092 23
LOC classification:
  • DA810.M33 M35 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Early Days -- 2. Land Management and Clanship in the 1780s and 1790s -- 3. Riches from the Sea? -- 4. Lifestyle, Debts and First Land Sales -- 5. Local and National Politician, 1783–1800 -- 6. The Soldier Chief -- 7. Governor and Captain General -- 8. Slave Owner in Berbice -- 9. Seaforth’s Great Matter: the Rights of Enslaved Labourers and Free People of Colour -- 10. Martial Law, a Governor’s Crisis -- 11. Return to Britain, 1806–11 -- 12. Shadows Lengthen -- 12. Shadows Lengthen -- Index
Summary: The story of Lord Seaforth, his estates in Scotland and the Caribbean and his governorship of Barbados on the eve of slave trade abolitionThis book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754–1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large estate who strove to protect his small tenants during the tumultuous era of the Highland Clearances. Financial pressures eventually drove him to become Governor of Barbados and an owner of plantations in Guyana, which were manned by slaves.This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed for the Highlands could be applied in slave societies. This provides a fresh new perspective on Seaforth’s fascinating story as he fought for the legal rights of enslaved labourers, while offering valuable insights into the political struggles leading to the end of the British slave trade in the Caribbean.Key featuresA biographical study of Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815)Provides insights into land management in the Highlands during the period of the ClearancesThe first comprehensive study of a Scottish Caribbean governor, who struggled to increase the rights of enslaved labourers
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Early Days -- 2. Land Management and Clanship in the 1780s and 1790s -- 3. Riches from the Sea? -- 4. Lifestyle, Debts and First Land Sales -- 5. Local and National Politician, 1783–1800 -- 6. The Soldier Chief -- 7. Governor and Captain General -- 8. Slave Owner in Berbice -- 9. Seaforth’s Great Matter: the Rights of Enslaved Labourers and Free People of Colour -- 10. Martial Law, a Governor’s Crisis -- 11. Return to Britain, 1806–11 -- 12. Shadows Lengthen -- 12. Shadows Lengthen -- Index

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The story of Lord Seaforth, his estates in Scotland and the Caribbean and his governorship of Barbados on the eve of slave trade abolitionThis book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754–1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large estate who strove to protect his small tenants during the tumultuous era of the Highland Clearances. Financial pressures eventually drove him to become Governor of Barbados and an owner of plantations in Guyana, which were manned by slaves.This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed for the Highlands could be applied in slave societies. This provides a fresh new perspective on Seaforth’s fascinating story as he fought for the legal rights of enslaved labourers, while offering valuable insights into the political struggles leading to the end of the British slave trade in the Caribbean.Key featuresA biographical study of Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815)Provides insights into land management in the Highlands during the period of the ClearancesThe first comprehensive study of a Scottish Caribbean governor, who struggled to increase the rights of enslaved labourers

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In English.

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