ABSTRACT The Scottish Enlightenment has long been identified with abolitionism because of the writings of the moral and economic philosophers and the absence of slaves in Scotland itself. However, Scots were disproportionately represented in the ownership, management, and especially medical treatment of slaves in the British Caribbean. Sugar and cotton flowed into Glasgow and young, educated Scots looking for work as traders, bookkeepers, doctors made the return trip back to the Caribbean to manage the plantations. Chemically trained doctors and agriculturalists tested their theories in the plantations and developed new theories based on their experimentation on the land and slaves. In foregrounding the participation of Scottish trained chemists in the practice of slavery, I argue that the development of eighteenth-century chemistry and the broader intellectual Enlightenment were inextricably entangled with the economic Improvement Movement and the colonial economy of the British slave trade.

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苏格兰启蒙运动中的化学与奴隶制

摘要 由于道德和经济哲学家的著作以及苏格兰本身没有奴隶，苏格兰启蒙运动长期以来一直被认为是废奴主义。然而，苏格兰人在英属加勒比地区奴隶的所有权、管理，尤其是医疗方面的比例过高。糖和棉花流入格拉斯哥，受过教育的年轻苏格兰人正在寻找工作，如商人、簿记员和医生，他们返回加勒比地区管理种植园。受过化学训练的医生和农学家在种植园中测试了他们的理论，并根据他们在土地和奴隶上的实验开发了新的理论。在强调苏格兰训练有素的化学家参与奴隶制实践时，