Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

"...Michael Morris's excellent book is especially timely in its recognition of the vast, and enduring, significance of slavery to British imperial prosperity and national cohesion, and to the contemporary Atlantic world."Joe Jackson, University of Nottingham, Association for Scottish Literary Studies

• Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833  1. Theoretical Orientations: Transnationalism in the Atlantic World  2. Archipelagic Poetics: Pastoral, Georgic, and the Scoto-British Imperial Vision, c.1740-1785  3. Robert Burns: Slavery, Freedom and Abolition, 1786-1800  4. Not Immediate but Gradual: Abolition to Emancipation, 1800-1833  5. Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean  6. Joseph Knight: History, Fiction, Memory

Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

"...Michael Morris's excellent book is especially timely in its recognition of the vast, and enduring, significance of slavery to British imperial prosperity and national cohesion, and to the contemporary Atlantic world."Joe Jackson, University of Nottingham, Association for Scottish Literary Studies

• Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833  1. Theoretical Orientations: Transnationalism in the Atlantic World  2. Archipelagic Poetics: Pastoral, Georgic, and the Scoto-British Imperial Vision, c.1740-1785  3. Robert Burns: Slavery, Freedom and Abolition, 1786-1800  4. Not Immediate but Gradual: Abolition to Emancipation, 1800-1833  5. Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean  6. Joseph Knight: History, Fiction, Memory

Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

"...Michael Morris's excellent book is especially timely in its recognition of the vast, and enduring, significance of slavery to British imperial prosperity and national cohesion, and to the contemporary Atlantic world."Joe Jackson, University of Nottingham, Association for Scottish Literary Studies

• Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833  1. Theoretical Orientations: Transnationalism in the Atlantic World  2. Archipelagic Poetics: Pastoral, Georgic, and the Scoto-British Imperial Vision, c.1740-1785  3. Robert Burns: Slavery, Freedom and Abolition, 1786-1800  4. Not Immediate but Gradual: Abolition to Emancipation, 1800-1833  5. Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean  6. Joseph Knight: History, Fiction, Memory