On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:03:36 +0000, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >------ Forwarded Message > >From: [email protected] >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:15:00 +0000 >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Bicentenary of Abolition of the Slave Trade > >Tony, > >Thanks for your informative e-mail, I will give it some thought. > >The project that I am pursuing is very much based on the African experience >of slavery; of the great Diaspora that occurred between the 17th and 19th >centuries. My probelm is making this relevant to the North-east of >Scotland, where there appears to have been little DIRECT link with slavery. > Mary Seacole's father was Scottish, and her mother was free. (http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/aboutmary.html) It might be worth pursuing her mother's ancestry.