Scotland took the profits of empire and never got a seat on the board.
The receipts
The source list for this chapter, as the publisher maintains it. Archive links are given wherever a cited page could move or die.
- Slave-ownership compensation: the £20 million paid under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833; UCL, Legacies of British Slavery database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/); T. M. Devine (ed.), Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), and the work of Nicholas Draper on absentee awards; Stephen Mullen, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy (University of London Press, 2022) and Glasgow City Council's slavery audit. "There were no white Scottish slaves": Stephen Mullen.
- The Glasgow tobacco trade: T. M. Devine, The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow, c. 1740 to 1790 (Edinburgh University Press, 1975). Houses of Cunninghame, Speirs, Buchanan; collapse with American independence, 1775.
- Dundee and jute: the Bengal connection, the first Calcutta mill (1855) built with Dundee capital, and the Dundee jute workforce of about 31,500 (over 40 per cent of the city, mostly women) in 1911.
- Scots in the East India Company: T. M. Devine, Scotland's Empire, 1600 to 1815 (Allen Lane, 2003).
- The Highland Clearances: Eric Richards, The Highland Clearances (Birlinn); T. M. Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 to 1900 (Allen Lane, 2018); the Sutherland clearances and the trial of Patrick Sellar, 1816.
- Full sourced dossier, with figures, bases and outstanding page-checks
- Publication review additions, 9 October 2026 (the advocate merge; each tag is the edit it sources): - (05-A02#1) Lord Ashcroft, Scottish Referendum Poll, full tables, fieldwork 18 to 19 September 2014, Table 2, Q.2 'How did you vote in the referendum?', base all respondents (2,047), SEG crossbreak, printed page 3, https://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Scotland-Post-Referendum-poll-Full-tables-1409191.pdf; existing capture https://web.archive.org/web/20260211205812/https://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Scotland-Post-Referendum-poll-Full-tables-1409191.pdf
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