Scotland's Hidden Slave Coast of Indian Peter
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- When it comes to Trans Atlantic servitude there's a dark aspect that remains hidden in Scottish history. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey tells a tail of criminality, deceit and complicity, from which will emerge Indian Peter
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Another powerful story expertly told. When the affluent and those in power are corrupt, it’s no wonder that the common people rebel.
So while the nobility and gentry of Africa were selling the poor of their own land into slavery overseas, those of Scotland were doing the same to their own countrymen.
A bigger crime is the European settlers who then enslaved the successive generations of the people they purchased in Africa.
Such is life, unfortunately.
Yet more evidence that humans are all the same and the powerful and greedy will destroy the lives of less fortunate people without hesitation. Lucky we now have politicians who will feign being hesitant before going ahead and doing it anyway. I'm from Aberdeen, my family was never involved and I have feel no guilt.
@dougieranger Could have been much worse the Africans could have been sold to arab slavers
Unlike the Irish, where it was the English & Scottish that indentured the Irish into slavery & destitution
Fascinating and horrific story.
Probably not generally known how horrific and perilous most people's lives could be in fairly recent history, (and can still be today).
You should be writing the national curriculum of history!
This should be taught in schools today, as a reminder of the sheer evil, corruption and injustice of authority and vested interests.
Such lessons are still highly relevant today.
Thank you for a fascinating story, once again!
yes and yes.. have you heard of John Taylor Gatto’s “a short history of American Education” .. very enlightening ☝️
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 No, I haven't, but I will search it out. Thanks.
Exactly...
They don't teach this in schools any more because they don't want us to know these facts.
Some indenture contracts allowed the contract holders to add time for providing food and clothes.
Wait for episode 2😜
Thank you Bruce. I am glad you mentioned Pennsylvania, the newspapers from my home state are an amazing resource and can lead to rabbit holes worse than any late night on Wikipedia.
Im still in shock after reading on the Scottish miners predicament.
Indeed
my 7 times great grandfather was a coal miner who was enslaved by his employers untill 1804 ,it was a rea eye openner
@@mattdragonrider7888 shocking
My fifth great-grandmother was an Indian slave girl, of George Ross, M.P. of Cromarty estate, named Isabella Ross (later MacLeod). Her hand was denied to my fifth great-grandfather Sir Hugh Munro 5th Bt Fowlis and George Ross even gave her to his MacLeod cousin in Inverness in his Will, rather than let them marry and legitimize their son George Munro.
Just out of curiosity, when you say Indian do you mean Native American or Indian? I only ask because either is possible and the name applied to both peoples at the time
Bruce, I think have mentioned this before, in the comments of a previous video, but from time to time I have a tendency to see our nation's history through rose-tinted lenses. The wee country up in the arse-end of the North Atlantic and North Sea teeming with salt-of-the-earth battlers who can just about get on with anyone in the world. Thank you for telling us these stories and for reminding people like me that the truth about us Scots is a lot more complicated and disturbing than the whisky label and shortbread tin version of the past we comfort ourselves in believing. What a horrific tale.
There's good and bad in all of us
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Indeed. That is what keeps my head up.
Everyone's history is more complicated and disturbing than they wish it were. That's true for every country throughout the world, and has been forever. But we are not responsible for the sins of our grandfathers, no more than we deserve credit for their great deeds. We are obliged to take the task in front of us, and do it and it alone. It is only on that which we are to be judged.
@@benjaminlasseter8929 We know. Everybody knows.
It is those who believe they have the authority to judge good and bad who are the problem in every age. Unless something was illegal at the time it was being done, there was no crime. People who live in an age of such material security as we do today have no moral authority to judge those who did not.
what is really striking here is actually what is NOT said. You read a description of dozens of children held under the lash of a whip by one man ,where were the other parents, why did the childrn not simply run away, where was the angry clergyman or citizens, this portrays a pitiless society already subjected to a different sort of slavery that of poverty ,submit or suffer. We in this year of 2023 with our high morality, save the planet, etc etc can have no idea of the brutality of life when simply existing was not guaranteed beyond the day.
You have highlighted Aberdeen, i suspect that a visit to any city in the whole island would have discovered similar appalling treatment and exploitation
A sad tale Bruce, but one in need of telling
In every town in the country there is a population of prostitutes, most of whom are not "happy hookers" working freelance for pin money, but wretches in debt-bondage to violent pimps and gangsters. They "interact" many times a day with members of the public, solid citizens who are unconcerned about their plight and don't tell the police, who are also uninterested.
Brother Bruce in my humble opinion you're one of the best history teachers and story tellers I've ever followed, and I just want to thank you for all of your great work and effort. I've thoroughly enjoyed learning from you, thank you Brother Bruce.
Human beings have some dark history, no matter the country. Some sick shit has went on in the past.
True
@@ScotlandHistoryTours even today, the number of slaves dwarfs the number ever seen in the past. Nothing is mentioned about it or done to stop it though, sad times.
Aye, this will be the "past" someday...and people will still say that.
@@gav2759☝️ yes , there’s still a bunch of skull duggery going on.. and tricksters. people just can’t see it . 🤠
I knew about the servitude of coal miners before 1804 , and that Campbell of Bredalbane is estimated to have sold over 6000 of his tennants to ships captains heading to the new world , corruption in high places ,has any of it changed ?
Most countries have "modern slavery," which exists with the connivance of local people and sometimes law enforcement. It may ensnare the local underclass (minorities, runaway children) or those trafficked from abroad and force into debt bondage, prostitution or cultivation of illegal plants. Foreign slaves are likely to be treated by the police as criminals and not victims. This includes domestic servants brought in by diplomats, who are not allowed to change their employer, and children brought by in adults pretending to be related.
Prostitutes who come to the attention of police in the UK are liable to have all the money in their possession confiscated. In some countries in Africa and Asia brick-making is generally done by slaves, as is commercial fishing. A lot of outsourced work is done for Western companies by slaves or, in China, prisoners doing forced labour.
Another great video, thank you!!!
Ah, greed and corruption of the dark annals of humanity. Thank goodness our leaders - well, those “in power” - have evolved with the subsequent centuries of education, legislative attempts at equity, and generally improved awareness & compassion!
🤔 Errrrr…
Jeez, I thought you were serous for a bit.😜
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Powerful story. I’m an American. Most of my roots go back to Pennsylvania. I know I have several indentured servants who were my ancestors. Two of them, were indentured servants in Maryland, who I think ran away and founded a farm in the wilderness of Western Pennsylvania. I have one or two Scottish ancestors - not many. I’m pretty sure that at least one or two of them were actually the product of Highland clearances and or indentures. Sometimes when I go to Scottish festivals, I think about that stuff.
Bruce Gore has a few articles on the role of Presbyterians in early America. At the time of the beginning of the American Revolution there was just less than one million. The population of the colonies at that time was 3 million with the majority being Presbyterian, Quakers, Lutherans and Dutch Reform. Quite an interesting time!
@@alexbirrell4568 thank you! That looks like interesting stuff to explore. My own ancestors at that time were pretty much all located in Pennsylvania. From what I what I’ve been reading, the majority of them were Presbyterians or reformed. Which I believe amount to fairly similar theological positions. Another large group were Lutheran, with a few Quakers thrown in. I didn’t know I had such an ancestral connection to Presbyterians until recently. I discovered that my grandmother and grandfather were both Presbyterians. My grandmother went to a German speaking. Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia has a matter of fact. A few Scottish lowlanders who settled in Pennsylvania by way of Northern Ireland also arrived in my ancestral pool. So I’m really interested in John Knox and in the covenanters. I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know a lot about them beyond vague stuff from college classes.
Well , I never knew any of this, and my family have lived here for generations , every day a school day.
Really enjoyed your show at the blue lamp, brilliant.
Ah thanks. Aye the two nights in The Blue Lamp were great fun
Touching and sombre lesson Bruce. Thank you 🙏
Thanks Bruce these things are never an easy subject to highlight. However we need to break ignorance and denialism.
Thank you Bruce your videos are brilliant . My ancestors where indentured servants in 1845 from Sutherland to Ontario Canada . I suspect they likely saw there homes burned .
Highly likely Neil. 😢
@@dougieranger I am Neil's roommate my Moms maiden name was Sutherland . I am related to many Scottish families . A lot of Scottish ancestors live in Canada .
@@hottubmobileneilAbsolutely. They weren’t all forced to go there but many were.
I hope you're all coming to my live shows in Ontairio in 3024
@@ScotlandHistoryToursI don’t think I’ll live that long Bruce.
A'reyt Bruce. "Kidnapped" Aberdeen style. Very interesting. If only my childhood hero Alan Breck Stewart had been there to intervene.
I cannot imagine how it must have been, but no law would have stopped me from getting to a child of mine. Our local hero is Robin Hood, after all, even if I picked a Scottish one. I wonder how many parents ended up on the ship too?
Looking forward to the next episode.
As this story continues, the guy you'll meet was the inspiration for Louis Stephenson's character
Thank you for not being one sided about this topic haste ye back, Mr.Fumey
I’m an American who has a cousin living in Scotland. What a beautiful country you have.
Our magistrates and judges in this day and age, are still complicate in the abuse of our citizenry today
I'm amazed beyond words.
Tragic is too soft a word to describe these stories 😢 Sadly these stories never make it in our school books.
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It was taught in our school, am from Aberdeen
Oftentimes these stories feel quite removed to me and I rarely have a emotional reaction, but there is something about imagining a desperate father shouting out to his boy, not being able to reach him and dreading his fate which got to me.
Thank you for your research, production & contribution of superb content! This is an excellent resource for anyone studying and/or researching socio-economics. It’s not only a source for those diving into history, but also for those studying sociology, government, maritime law, capitalism & business administration.
I am glad you are shinning a light on this subject Bruce. I wrote about scotland's connection to the slave trade and got called a self hating scot.
I don't know why I had never thought of this before. Slavers have ALWAYS made sure they had the government backing them, and always by bribing the pockets of those who are supposed to stop slavery. And, as has been apparent in my own country in the past few years, that's exactly what they do to this day. Thank you for an interesting and illuminating video, Mr. Fumey.
Fummey😜 The Fumeys are from Togo
I deeply apologize, @@ScotlandHistoryTours!
It doesn't require an apology of any depth. There are many names I don't know how to spell😜
The best most profound video's in the world! Thanks, BRILLIANT!
Wow, thank you!
As amazing as the past is, sometimes it makes me cry. Looking forward to next video.
You and me both!
Another brilliant and enlightening one, Bruce.
Thanks
As an Aberdonian born there in 1949 I'm shocked and saddened to hear of such happenings; thank God I left there in 1954 on a ship bound to Alberta, Canada with my mum and younger brother where my father had gone before us to practise medicine.
Aye a close call 200 years later 🙄
A very interesting upload, Bruce. Yet again, you’ve cut through any notions of noble patriots, and the like. This is about greed.
Obvious parallels with nowadays- rich people seeing poor people as chattel.
Your videos are what Scotland needs.
Shocking, but, sadly, not surprising.
True
As always Bruce give light to a dark time very well done and cliff hanger!
good teaching folks
Another quality vlog, thanks Bruce.
My pleasure
There was a movie called Skulduggery starring Burt Reynolds and Diana Muldur and it was terrible but it dealt with a subject of sadness.
Hello Bruce and Crew / Families too, Big hugs.
Another great story Bruce. The lack of humanity is still with us today. I wonder if we will ever make advancements as humans. Sadly its taken longer than we think. Still keep up the solid work you do.
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Hope you popped into the baker in Oldmeldrum square..... great pies.
No, but I did pop into the distillery😜
I knew from reading Kidnaped that something along this line was going on but didn't know any more than that. Interesting to learn more about it. And sad.
Indeed
What a horrible story. This doesn't surprise me with the trade in indentured servitude
thanks for continuing to put this stuff out there...
it's information which everyone should know and we must not forget.!
Love your bits to bits!
Thank you Mr F!
You're welcome
Nother brilliant riveting account, Bruce😎👍
... much more besieged - not from without, imo - but from within🏴... 😢
(Gotta tell you, btw, that I'd just had many in the fam last weekend sit down to watch the account of Margaret Wilson and the Wigtown Martyrs)
It left they all in tears...
One of 'em piped up afterward n says, "Ye said he was a bloody comedian!"🤣🤣🤣
😉👍
😂😂😂 Sometimes I'm funny, honest
It always was about class, power and money, as well as melanin levels.
A fascinating insight into my adopted home town. Thanks as always. I was really gutted to miss your gig here last month (I had a gig of my own that night, which I guess is a reasonable excuse). Hope you come back here soon.
Thnx again bruce for a very informative video....how terrifying 😢
Glad you enjoyed it
Enlightening. Thank you again.
God i love your work and it appauled me that this happend!
Aye, people eh?
Thanks!
Thank YOU
Love it, matey.
So interesting,..x
Something new to myself was the Aberdeen "Bon Accord" fact, I only ever associated Bon Accord with the juice company that sold their drinks in Weegie currency "ginger bottles"
Aye, I remember them
The obscene corruption detailed here needs to be better known.
Another brilliant story from our not-so-well-kent past! Those bluidy Magistrates eh Bruce 😉👎
Aye, dodgy gits
A well told story Bruce fella
Thank you sir
Other commenters have responded more eloquently than I but I thank you for bringing these gross injustices out in the open 🌞
Thanks
Just caught your video on Andrew Carnegie on Facebook. As you can tell by my name, old Andy is a bit of a local hero. Gonna have to venture down to his museum (never been despite being about 5 minutes away). Anyway, the video was great! Found you on here and subscribed can’t wait to watch your other videos. 😁🏴
Brilliant. Welcome on board
I know my Campbell family were involved in the slave trade somehow - the fact that in my parents part of Jamaica, (St Elizabeth) there is a total glut of Scottish names tells us that without knowing anything else. The fact that other people than African were treated as slaves, just tells people there were not enough 'white' people to become workhorses, so they went to Africa to get them. I've seen where Italians were treated as 'black' in USA and lynched for 'crimes'. All for greed, profit and sheer ignorance. My late father didn't know the whole tale, but he told us enough to know that people are not nice to their own, let alone another race when money, fame and fortune is on the line... I thank god I had his measured tales to get a better idea of what was going on..
Cheers bruce yet another piece of informative history 👍🍺🍺
No worries
That is a horrific story; well done
A great vidéo, do you have some books titles on this sunject ?
Indian Peter
This got me thinking you should do a video on Norman MacLeod 'The Wicked Man'', he was another absolute scumbag! Or maybe not, probably best forgot.
Is that the Skye Chief you're on about?
Great story Bruce, if it wisnae fer you most of us wouldnae huv a clue, cheers Big Man.
And this is what happened: After watching your other videos on slavery I was wondering how the reality was in Europe also for people in serfdom. So I got a book to learn about it. Then I read about slave-trade from Europe to the Americas and wondered what Bruce Fummey would have to say about it - and a couple of days later here we go. Thanks! You're the best historian-comedian on the internet!
Ah, the good old days.
Most interesting stuff by my favourite Scot.
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hes not scottish
I've seen his DNA episode. @@gavblack
Establishment trafficking still goes on big business in Europe and people are still the biggest commodity.
Luv your stories
Thanks
Who were those magistrates of Aberdeen who turned a blind eye to kidnapping and enslavement? Until 1975 that role was performed in the cities and burghs of Scotland by "Baillies," elected by town councillors from local worthies in the same way as Aldermen in England. In the 18th century councils would have been chosen by the burgesses, a small number of merchants and master craftsmen. No legal training!
I missed your Breakneck shows because of Storm bloody Babet, and now I'm going to miss your Cruden Bay one because I'm laid up in a hospital. Back to the drawing board 😭
Wishing you a speedy recovery
Thank you.
You're welcome!
This is a great story for to as I am a American with 1/4 Scottish heritage my grandfather and great grandfather both came from Glasgow. My youngest brother was doing some family tree research on the Stewart family tree and could only get us back to 1790 and then everything just ends. I did meet a lady in Texas who was doing the same family tree and they tried to go backwards on the maternal side . But this information about servitude and land owners selling there renter’s ships Captain for servitude in the new world, and the time line maybe that is why we don’t exist past 1790 But where did we start from then. I think that maybe a DNA test like you did is in order…
Thanks Bruce for your work man. I am down in Brazil living right now and it’s really cool to have you to watch. They have here the same history as the United States here but they have gotten past it un like the US that is going back to it so sad and unnecessary. They should all have to come here to see that we can live next to each other and be help one another instead of the constant hate right and left that shit means nothing if you are so divided anyways thanks man.
The two greats evils of man.
Religion & greed, religion hath seen bráther turn on bráther in bloodshed under the name of a god.
Greed hath seen just as bad if not worse, not in the name of a god but for coin in pocket.
Our beloved hameland of Scotland is no stranger to these darknesses of the soul.
So is Hell the burning sea of fire we all in visage or is it found in the beauty of the hills & glens of Scotland?.....
Its actually found in the hearts & pockets of man, & not just Scots men (tho some have & are absolute...."a word that sounds hunts but begins with a C"😂) but men from every religion, race, colour & creed from every corner of time & this world....& alas it always will be.
Thanks
Thank YOU
High resolution history is where its at!
In your back story about Jamestown, you should point out that the original settlers were not farmers or anyone who knew how to fend for themselves. Thus the trouble they had surviving.
thanks
It's fascinating that I had this experience of being brought drinks and press-ganged by gypsies, they used the same technics you describe from ancient times it still goes on in the modern world.
Hearing this story makes me embarrassed of my ancestors and their words & actions. I know that I cannot change history so I'm apologizing on their behalf of the negative behavior that was done. I am sincerely sorry for my people's horrible deeds.
Apologising for stuff you didn't do makes no sense
That’s a thing of my own family sold to slaves for loosing the Scottish civil war. … sold to Irish ☘️ nobles. And everyone thinks Irish ☘️ when I say my name. Yet it was Scottish earlier. My forefathersJohn Wotherspoon and Beckett was Washington’s associates…the ship they sailed the frigates Hector, Truo Nova Scotia, drawn by Gainsborough…irony my kids and grandkids are future King George’s cousins. Love ❤️ your works!
So sad and true , thanks for this. I live in PA. and this is part of US history never taught.
I did cryed hard after your sister with her husband on Your second vid about slavery in Scotland. Dude that was deeply ball busting mentally and emotionally for me man and Im still a female. I unlike many female have been puched in that Uhggggerrr whhhasss area. If I was not stopped I had plans to give back the old ways
Very interesting, A story of crimes I had never heard.
Ryerson family apparently owned some of my ancestors in the book of Negroes the Sarah woman would have been one of my great great great great grandparents... Francis Ryerson slave of Egerton Ryerson. Too many holes in the story
In Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations, he describes the differences between living where the economy is growing rapidly and living where the economy is stagnant. He said that it was not uncommon for an American laboring man and his wife to live to see more than 100 descendants. Contrarywise in Scotland, a laboring man and his wife could barely raise two children to adulthood, in spite of having twenty children born, not counting homunculuses (children lost to miscarriage). (1776) 😮. That's pretty powerful motivation to emigrate.
Forced emigration explains much about the culture of Virginia and the other slave states. 😢
Is it any different today??? YES! LOL Having said that Slavery today is more prevalent than ever before! But NOT official slavery.
I like Bruce cos he tells he truth and remember over 3 million children in Britain and UK were forcefully adopted - trafficked between 1950-1998 yes and I am still here. Social engineering -Ps I am not Chloe.
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If you're a speaker of Romance languages (i.e.Ladino,Spanish,Romanian, Portuguese, French, Italian,Galician,Basque) it's not really offensive to call a person mullatto unlike those who are Anglo-speaking
I can see why in the american revolution in its aftermath demanded that 10 amendments called the bill of rights was to be included. After freedom of speech was the 2nd was the right to possess and bear arms.
Although slavery and indentureship was not forbidden and it took a civil war to end chattel slavery.
Surely the last sentence negates the first. Is that just me?
Great video. My ancestors were indentured coal miners in Fife in the 18th century. The whole family were indentured. They didn’t always ship them off to the Americas.
I made a whole video about that
@@ScotlandHistoryTourscouldn't find it, what's it called please Bruce?
A Man Called Horse.
A terrible story beautifully told. I knew some of this when I lived in Aberdeen.
I'm a wee bit confused by the use of the word "magistrate" in relation to Scotland. As far as I know, there is no legal office of "magistrate" in the Scottish legal system and never has been.
It would be a JP in Scotland. To be fair a lot of viewers are outside Scotland and wouldn't recognise that. It's a tightrope
Land grant owners in Virginia were given 50 Acres for every indentured immigrant they brought to the Colony.
I like church history and I discovered that Scottish Baptists had a huge influence for Christ in Canada. Love your videos man keep up the great work.