The Enslavement of the Moors of Scotland
I have found out that these people were ENSLAVED and sent to different parts of the world in the 1700s
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson
IN THIS BOOK IN THE FOOT NOTES IT SAYS THE FOLLOWING REGARDING THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THESE PEOPLE
Note: The M’Craas, or Macraes, were since that time brought into the king’s army, by the late Lord Seaforth. When they lay in Edinburgh castle in 1778, and were ordered to embark for Jersey, they with a number of other men in the regiment, for different reasons, but especially an apprehension that they were to be sold to the East- India Company, though enlisted not to be sent out of Great- Britain without their own consent, made a determined mutiny, and encamped upon the lofty mountain, Arthur’s seat, where they remained three days and three nights ; bidding defiance to all the force in Scotland.
THEY WERE SOLD TO THE EAST INDIAN SLAVERY SHIPPING COMPANY IN THE 1700’S
ALSO THEY WERE SOLD TO VIRGINIA AND THE WEST INDIES by Cromwell
White People Indians and Highlanders tribal peoples and colonial encounters in Scotland and America
by COLIN G. CALLOWAY
The Macleods of Dunvegan suffered huge casualties when Oliver Cromwell
defeated the Scots at Worcester, and Cromwell transported hundreds of
Scots prisoners as indentured servants to Virginia and the West Indies.
Cromwell invaded Scotland in 1650 and 1651 and built a fort at Inverness “to
preserve the peace of the country, and keep the highlands in awe, which they
effectually did all his time,” wrote Daniel Defoe, who toured the region in
the 1720s———White People Indians and Highlanders P 26
so hundreds of these people were sold into slavery