Legacies of Slavery and Empire

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.
Blog Posts
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A Tainted Inheritance
10/6 2023
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Where was an Esther?
3/11/2022
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Glasgow and the campaign to end slavery
5/10/2022
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The Launch of a West Indies Trader
2/8/2022
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A Virginian Merchant’s Waistcoat
30/3/2022
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Glasgow’s railways … funded by slavery?
1/12/2021
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Rethinking the Dutch 'Golden Age’
17/11/2021
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Ann Stirling’s Dress
28/9/2021
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Ghosts: an impassioned call to remember
20/4/2021
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Coins of Empire
24/3/2021
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Patrick Colquhoun of Kelvingrove
10/3/2021
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The Medora – a Glasgow sugar ship
8/2/2021
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Robert Burns and Jamaica
25/1/2021
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A Looted Royal Stool
13/1/2021
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Thomas Carlyle, historian, writer, racist
18/11/2020
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Sir William Burrell’s Stained Glass
21/10/2020
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Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade
9/9/2020
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A Seat of Power
26/8/2020
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Mungo Murray, Darien and Slavery
17/6/2020
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Voyages of Exploration and Exploitation
15/6/2020
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Letters from Tobago
1/6/2020
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John Robertson: Cash for a Cashier
5/5/2020
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John McCall and Family
3/3/2020
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The Black House
4/2/2020
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The Navy and Slavery
8/1/2020
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Glasgow Merchants’ Investment in Purple
3/12/2019
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The earliest enslaved person in Glasgow?
6/11/2019
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A Free Press but not a Free People
2/9/2019
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Cathkin House and Slavery
2/7/2019
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Turkey Red and the Slave Economy
9/5/2019
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John Glassford’s Art Collection
1/3/2019
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Object Talks: Dr Anthony Lewis
6/12/2018
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Learning about Slavery, Past and Present
5/11/2018
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Smoking the products of slavery
20/9/2018
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Glasgow Plantation Owners in Jamaica
29/8/2018
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The Tontine Heads
15/8/2018
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Stones Steeped in History
14/8/2018
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Slave Cotton in Glasgow
14/8/2018
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Jamie Montgomery, Runaway Slave
14/8/2018
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Gustavus Brown’s Runaway Slave
14/8/2018
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John Glassford’s Family Portrait
14/8/2018
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A fashionable accessory?
14/8/2018
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The Cunninghame Mansion
14/8/2018
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Boyd, an Enslaved African in Glasgow
14/8/2018
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Glasgow’s role in the American Civil War
14/8/2018
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Enslaved Black boys
28/3/2017
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A Marriage Bonded by Slavery
22/3/2017