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Jacobites, Logwood and Enslavement
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Rethinking Scots' activities in the Early Modern Caribbean

What Scottish play, published in 1725, reached over 100 printings by 1800, was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than forty paintings, more than ‘from the entire works of Chaucer, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, or Fielding’ (R. Altick, Paintings from Books), and was performed by amateur companies throughout Scotland as late as the end of the 19th century?

Allan Ramsay and his 1720s Edinburgh adventure in ballad opera