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vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2022-11-22 03:08 pm

Spreadsheeting

Entering the black servants I'm finding in 18th century Scottish servant tax records into a spreadsheet to gather together, let me resort etc. It is often depressingly dehumanising, but sheds more light on Scotland's black history. Typically the employers have slavery links. The last servant I typed (currently doing easiest to spot ones) was bought as a slave as a young boy in Charleston and brought back to Scotland.

Excel spreadsheet of black servant references in the Scottish servant tax records