


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.'

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

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

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

Jamaica Street, New Town, Edinburgh

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

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



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.

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

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

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