Recovering Scotland's memory of the black Atlantic through its long-forgotten Caribbean connections, this book re-examines Enlightenment- to Romantic-era texts to reveal Scotland's deep cultural entanglement with Caribbean slavery. It explores the implications of this forgotten history from a world-literature perspective to suggest new directions for an archipelagic perspective in the transnational Atlantic world.

Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833 1. Theoretical Orientations: Transnationalism in the Atlantic World 2. Archipelagic Poetics: Pastoral, Georgic, and the Scoto-British Imperial Vision, c.1740-1785 3. Robert Burns: Slavery, Freedom and Abolition, 1786-1800 4. Not Immediate but Gradual: Abolition to Emancipation, 1800-1833 5. Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean 6. Joseph Knight: History, Fiction, Memory