Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013). He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti.

Frederick Douglass and Scotland is an ambitious and highly original work that is an exciting new addition to the historiography. It addresses both the need for more recognition of Douglass in Scottish historiography, and also of Scotland in studies of Douglass in the United States. It is thoroughly researched, and the author does an impressive of using source material to reveal Douglass's visit to Scotland as a truly transformative episode in the abolitionist's life.

• Part I: The Voyage‘Throw Him Overboard’The Making of a Fugitive‘Put Them in Irons’Part II: Dark, Polluted GoldElectric SpeedThat Ticklish PossessionThe Free Church RespondsThe Price of FreedomThe Genealogy of MoneyGilded CagesPart III: Douglass, Scott and Burns‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’A Wild PropositionNew Relations and DutiesA Visit to AyrThe Coward Slave and the Poor Negro DriverCrooked PathsThe Sons and Daughters of Old ScotiaPart IV: Measuring Heads, Reading FacesBreakfast with CombeThe Physiological CenturyTravelling PhrenologicallyA Glut of EthiopiansDouglass on StageThe Suit and the EngravingPart V: The Voyage HomeA Disconnected FarewellCabin 72Never AgainPart VI: The Affinity ScotRecitals of BloodChoosing AncestorsRemembering DouglassOut of My Place

Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013). He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti.

Frederick Douglass and Scotland is an ambitious and highly original work that is an exciting new addition to the historiography. It addresses both the need for more recognition of Douglass in Scottish historiography, and also of Scotland in studies of Douglass in the United States. It is thoroughly researched, and the author does an impressive of using source material to reveal Douglass's visit to Scotland as a truly transformative episode in the abolitionist's life.

• Part I: The Voyage‘Throw Him Overboard’The Making of a Fugitive‘Put Them in Irons’Part II: Dark, Polluted GoldElectric SpeedThat Ticklish PossessionThe Free Church RespondsThe Price of FreedomThe Genealogy of MoneyGilded CagesPart III: Douglass, Scott and Burns‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’A Wild PropositionNew Relations and DutiesA Visit to AyrThe Coward Slave and the Poor Negro DriverCrooked PathsThe Sons and Daughters of Old ScotiaPart IV: Measuring Heads, Reading FacesBreakfast with CombeThe Physiological CenturyTravelling PhrenologicallyA Glut of EthiopiansDouglass on StageThe Suit and the EngravingPart V: The Voyage HomeA Disconnected FarewellCabin 72Never AgainPart VI: The Affinity ScotRecitals of BloodChoosing AncestorsRemembering DouglassOut of My Place

Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013). He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti.

Frederick Douglass and Scotland is an ambitious and highly original work that is an exciting new addition to the historiography. It addresses both the need for more recognition of Douglass in Scottish historiography, and also of Scotland in studies of Douglass in the United States. It is thoroughly researched, and the author does an impressive of using source material to reveal Douglass's visit to Scotland as a truly transformative episode in the abolitionist's life.

• Part I: The Voyage‘Throw Him Overboard’The Making of a Fugitive‘Put Them in Irons’Part II: Dark, Polluted GoldElectric SpeedThat Ticklish PossessionThe Free Church RespondsThe Price of FreedomThe Genealogy of MoneyGilded CagesPart III: Douglass, Scott and Burns‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’A Wild PropositionNew Relations and DutiesA Visit to AyrThe Coward Slave and the Poor Negro DriverCrooked PathsThe Sons and Daughters of Old ScotiaPart IV: Measuring Heads, Reading FacesBreakfast with CombeThe Physiological CenturyTravelling PhrenologicallyA Glut of EthiopiansDouglass on StageThe Suit and the EngravingPart V: The Voyage HomeA Disconnected FarewellCabin 72Never AgainPart VI: The Affinity ScotRecitals of BloodChoosing AncestorsRemembering DouglassOut of My Place