vivdunstan

Pleased to be sitting up, working on an academic journal paper. Filling in more remaining footnotes as I get closer to finished. Latest ones added about Presbyterian minister Archibald Simpson's time in South Carolina, General Staats Long Morris in Aberdeenshire, and Edinburgh Lord Provost Sir James Hunter Blair. All of the above were employers of black servants in late eighteenth century Scotland. I get incredibly frustrated by how little I know about these servants, often not even their names. While the employers are written up at length, often with fancy paintings. Though in the above examples I do know a little about Cloy Simpson, Wattie and Jack Blair Hunter. Yes I have thoughts ...