Dr Richard Anderson, Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen
From students, sailors, and soldiers, Dr Anderson will consider the unexplored history of people of African descent in North-East Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, from the age of Atlantic slavery to the era of abolition.
Image:
George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal and his groom, possibly Ibrahim (detail)
attributed to Placido Costanzi
oil on copper, circa 1733
NPG 552
© National Portrait Gallery, London
