Bibliography

Scipio Kennedy:

Heritage Scotland, August 1997.

Black Servants :

Aitchison, J., Servants in Ayrshire 1750-1914, Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society: Ayr, 2001, page 15. Newspaper research by Rob Close.

The Tobacco Trade:

Devine, T. M., The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities c. 1740-90, John Donald: Edinburgh, 1975.
Devine, T. M., (editor) A Scottish firm in Virginia 1767-1777, Scottish History Society: Edinburgh, 1984.

Abolition:

Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848, Verso: London, 1988.
Curry, Richard O., (editor) The Abolitionists, Dryden Press: London, 1973.
Drescher, Seymour, Capitalism and Antislavery – British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Walvin, James, England, Slaves and Freedom, 1776-1838, MacMillan: London, 1986.

Frederick Douglass:

McFeely, William S., Frederick Douglass, Norton: London, 1991.

Frederick Douglass in Scotland:

http://www.bulldozia.com/douglass/index.php

Alexander Waters:

Close, Rob, ‘Alexander Waters, mason and builder, Sundrum’, Ayrshire Notes 25, Autumn 2003.

Other exhibitions:

The National Archives of Scotland Black History Exhibition

The Mitchell Black History Month exhibition: