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Maria MacAndrew, 59 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh. 3 slaves in Tobago, £6000. 'I am a poor widow with a large family to provide for and my only dependance is on the payment of the Compensation Money for some negroes in the Island of Tobago.'

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John Blackburn,8 Queen Street, Edinburgh 638 slaves, Angel’s Pen,Wallens and New Works Plantations, Jamaica, £843,834

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Eliza Jane McGlashan (née Turner) West Port, St James's Parish, Edinburgh, Jamaica St Ann (Dunbarton plantation) 194 slaves, £207,000

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John Dick, 6 Middleby Street, Edinburgh 133 slaves, Clydesdale Plantation, Port Royal, Jamaica .177 slaves, Orange Park, St David, Jamaica £486,000

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Jamaica Street, New Town, Edinburgh

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Helen Mackellar (née Stirling) 8 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh 330 slaves, Hamden Estate, St James, and Kerr Settlement, Trelawney, Jamaica, £496,000

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Anna Carter (née McGibbon), 9 Preston Street, Edinburgh. 83 slaves, Surrey Plantation, St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica , £134,250

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The Melville Monument,St. Andrews Square, honours 18th century politician Henry Dundas. As one of Scotland’s most powerful politicians of the day, Dundas delayed the abolition of slavery for nearly 20 years when he was Home Secretary.

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Donald Horne, 10 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh 107 slaves at Peter Hall Plantation, British Guiana, £160,000

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Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster ,133 George Street, Edinburgh, St 264 slaves at Argyle Plantation, St Vincent £541,360

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Walter Cockburn, 24 Broughton Place, Edinburgh,  641 slaves Dominica, Grenada, Tobago £855,000

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