I’ve really enjoyed my first week in Archives and Special Collections at Strathclyde beginning to analyse the Lang Papers! Blog posts dissecting the originality and importance of the letters are soon to follow.

Jennifer is currently undertaking a research internship at Archives and Special Collections at Strathclyde, analysing and publicising the content of the Hugh Lang Papers (1860-1862), a Largs-based doctor who owned plantations in Danish St Croix in the nineteenth century. Follow to hear more over the summer!

A few days well spent in York enjoying the sunshine and visiting UoY Borthwick Institute for Archives and City of York Archive. What a great trip! 🌞📜

I’m hoping to publicise the Lang Papers, which provide intricate details about post-abolition plantation management and illuminate Lang’s history of exploiting enslaved labour in Danish St. Croix. I’ll be sharing my intro blog soon!

For the last month Jennifer Faith Gray has been exploring the papers of plantation owner Hugh Lang, here is the first in a series of blog posts on her research so far. #slavery #colonialism stratharchives.tumblr.com/post/658406950…

This is my blog, written for Scottish Centre for Global History - UoD, where I discuss the intra-American slave trade to North America and Spanish America. Thank you to Jordan Buchanan for your guidance and suggestions!

‼️NEW READ‼️ Blog post about the intra-American slave trade by one of our master's students in history, and recent alum of our undergraduate programme, Jennifer Faith Gray HaSSGraduateSchool

In my second blog, I highlight the role of Scots’ in perpetuating Caribbean slavery and plantation economy, beyond the British empire. I explore how the Lang family exploited enslaved persons on their plantations in Danish St. Croix. Thank you to David Wilson for supervising!

This summer Jennifer Faith Gray spent time at Archives and Special Collections at Strathclyde examining the understudied Lang Papers. Read blog 2 of her findings below on what these papers demonstrate about Scottish participation in slavery and plantation beyond the British empire.

This is my final blog, where I discuss the human and material legacies of Scottish participation in Danish St. Croix. From their participation in Caribbean slavery, the Lang family procured generational wealth. Read about Dr Hugh Lang’s legacy here. David Wilson Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde