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    There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America. White slavery to the American Colonies occurred as early as 1630 in Scotland. According to the Egerton manuscript, British Museum, the enactment of 1652: it may be lawful for two or more justices of the peace within any county, citty or towne, corporate ...
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    The Scottish settlers who came over at this period occupied most of the northern counties of the state and a number went south and southwest, mainly around Princeton, and, says Samuel Smith, the first historian of the Province, "There were very soon four towns in the Province, viz., Elizabeth, Newark, Middletown, and Shrewsbury: and these with ...
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    The Parliamentary fleet in which they were transported sailed first to Barbadoes. . . . ... 3 Proof that white slaves - or so-called "servants" - were sold from Massachusetts to the South just at the time when those imported from Scotland arrived is furnished by a document which came to the present writer's knowledge while his article was ...
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    Some have computed that the white population of the American Colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War was 3,000,000, and that of this number 900,000 were people of Scottish blood, 600,000 were English, and 400,000 were of Dutch, German Reformed and Huguenot descent ; but other more conservative authorities have estimated that in 1775 the ...
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    It was the bloodies war in the 17 th centurn in America and it is stated that one tenth of white males in New England were killed or wounded. Women and children on both sides were killed and Indian prisoners were sold as slaves to local planters and to buyers in the West Indies. By 1690, he was worn out by hard work and returned to Cambridge to ...
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    Yet were they to probe the roots of that history they would find that many of the key figures in the making of North America were Scots. From the first settlements in Nova Scotia in the 1620s, to the explorations of land to the north and west, and finally the great Canadian Pacific Railway which became its backbone, Canada was shaped and led by ...
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    And so in many respects I feel the slave in America was actually better treated than many Scots who subsequently became the slave owners. This made me think that they were merely continuing the clan system they had come from albeit by being slave owners but in their own way chiefs of their "clan".
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    These three Stewart--Ochiltree brothers and then the fourth, James, served the Colonies and settled the frontiers of the new America...Along with thousands of Scots and other country emigrants. they were all integral to the founding of the new nations, with the skills from their country and an exchange of skills, thoughts, ideas and ideals with ...
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    Consequently, a shared sense of cultural inferiority, combined with sullen resentment against the English, persisted for generations in American and Scottish cultures. With T. J. Wertenbaker and the 1954 William and Mary Quarterly, a new era of Scottish-American historiography had begun. On the Scottish side, the foremost scholar was Professor ...
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    The surviving members of the Brown family were taken into captivity, with two of the girls being prisoners for one year. One son was held for five years, and Joseph Brown, another son, was held as a slave for 17 months. Jane Brown and one of her daughters were forced to march barefoot over 200 miles by their captors.

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