The story behind Robert Burns considering involvement in the slave trade
The National devotes more space and effort to informing its readers about the history of their country than any other newspaper.
. Human beings are inconsistent in their moral judgments and always will be. They are hypocrites. They contradict themselves and each other the whole time.It is interesting that in Scotland we have not yet managed to have a full-scale war of words about Robert Burns. Burns is a poet we all love because he is impossible to hate.
Burns was well aware of the nature of this job. He would be a “poor Negro driver”. He might be able to sympathise with the workers he whipped into working all day under the tropical sun and harvesting the sugar cane. But whip them he would. If he could not contemplate even that much of his new life, then it was hardly worth going to Jamaica at all.
The fact that Scotland’s famous Bard thought of working on a plantation where he would need to mark up the purchases of enslaved African people, as well as record their punishments and deaths, is not pleasant to think about. However, commenting on the role of “under overseer or Negro driver” in 1773, a landowner admitted it to be “laborious, dangerous to health and disagreeable”, not the “calm sedentary life” some expected.
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