Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Emergence3. Trade and Commerce4. A Glasgow-West India House5. ‘Wanted, to serve in the West Indies’6. Jamaica7. Grenada and Carriacou8. Trinidad9. Glasgow-West India ‘Spheres of Influence’: Embedding the Profits of Caribbean Slavery10. ConclusionAppendixBibliography and Manuscript Sources

About the Author

Dr Stephen Mullen is an historian of slavery and its aftermath in the British Atlantic world, with a particular focus on Scotland and the Caribbean. He is alumnus of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, completing a PhD at the latter institution in 2015. Since then, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. His research has focused on the social and economic consequences of Atlantic slavery in a British-Atlantic framework. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme project ‘Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century’, and the principal researcher and co-author of the report ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’ (2018), which led to the sector-leading Reparative Justice strategy. He is currently commissioned by Glasgow City Council to lead an audit of the city of Glasgow’s built heritage and the historic connections with Atlantic slavery.