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Legacies of Slavery and Empire

A painting entitled 'Launch of the Christian' T.1957.15 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

Within this part of our website, museum staff and guest authors explore the ways in which objects from our collection can shine a light on Glasgow’s relationship with transatlantic slavery, empire and their legacies.

Glasgow: Addressing Legacies of Slavery and Empire Benefits Us All

13/9/2023
A Tainted Inheritance

10/6 2023
Where was an Esther?

3/11/2022
Glasgow and the campaign to end slavery

5/10/2022
The Launch of a West Indies Trader

2/8/2022
A Virginian Merchant’s Waistcoat

30/3/2022
The Rani of Jhansi, a symbol of resistance to British Rule in India

1/3/2022
Mary McDowall – A Childhood and Dowry Funded by Enslaved Labour

15/2/2022
Glasgow’s railways … funded by slavery?

1/12/2021
Rethinking the Dutch 'Golden Age’

17/11/2021
Cecilia Douglas – Art Collector and Owner of Enslaved People

3/11/2021
Ann Stirling’s Dress

28/9/2021
Ghosts: an impassioned call to remember

20/4/2021
Coins of Empire

24/3/2021
Patrick Colquhoun of Kelvingrove

10/3/2021
The Medora – a Glasgow sugar ship

8/2/2021
Robert Burns and Jamaica

25/1/2021
A Looted Royal Stool

13/1/2021
Arrangement in Racism and Black Injustice: Whistler’s Colour Theory

2/12/2020
Thomas Carlyle, historian, writer, racist

18/11/2020
Alexander Campbell, Glasgow’s Sugar Aristocrat

4/11/2020
Sir William Burrell’s Stained Glass

21/10/2020
Inheritance and Privilege – Alexander Oswald of Changue

7/10/2020
Addressing the Legacies of Empire and Slavery

23/9/2020
Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade

9/9/2020
A Seat of Power

26/8/2020
Robert Nutter Campbell, country gent and owner of enslaved people

12/8/2020
Selling West Indian Sugar and Rum in Glasgow

29/7/2020
Mungo Murray, Darien and Slavery

17/6/2020
Voyages of Exploration and Exploitation

15/6/2020
Lady Margaret Mackenzie speaks – life with the Glassfords

2/6/2020
Letters from Tobago

1/6/2020
John Robertson: Cash for a Cashier

5/5/2020
Lady Jean Grant and Caribbean Slavery

2/4/2020
John McCall and Family

3/3/2020
The Black House

4/2/2020
The Navy and Slavery

8/1/2020
Glasgow Merchants’ Investment in Purple

3/12/2019
The earliest enslaved person in Glasgow?

6/11/2019
A Free Press but not a Free People

2/9/2019
The Tobacco Merchant’s House at 42 Miller Street

5/8/2019
Cathkin House and Slavery

2/7/2019
Drinking the fruits of enslaved labour

5/6/2019
Turkey Red and the Slave Economy

9/5/2019
John Glassford’s Art Collection

1/3/2019
The Black History of White Cotton Dresses

5/2/2019
Making a Difference – Erin Algeo’s research on Glasgow and Slavery

9/1/2019
Object Talks: Dr Anthony Lewis

6/12/2018
Learning about Slavery, Past and Present

5/11/2018
Smoking the products of slavery

20/9/2018
David Dale: an abolitionist cotton magnate

6/9/2018
Glasgow Plantation Owners in Jamaica

29/8/2018
The Tontine Heads

15/8/2018
Stones Steeped in History

14/8/2018
Slave Cotton in Glasgow

14/8/2018
The Luke of Claythorn family – Silver, Sugar and Slavery

14/8/2018
Jamie Montgomery, Runaway Slave

14/8/2018
How Glasgow Flourished 1714-1837 - Exhibition

14/8/2018
Gustavus Brown’s Runaway Slave

14/8/2018
John Glassford’s Family Portrait

14/8/2018
A fashionable accessory?

14/8/2018
The Cunninghame Mansion

14/8/2018
Contemporary Art and Slavery - Exhibition

14/8/2018
Boyd, an Enslaved African in Glasgow

14/8/2018
Glasgow’s role in the American Civil War

14/8/2018
Enslaved Black boys

28/3/2017
A Marriage Bonded by Slavery

22/3/2017