Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
I suppose the argument will continue for ever - as numerous Scots who emigrated to the West Indies, the only work was the overseeing and managing of the many sugar plantations, which demanded the constant monitoring and surveillance of the slaves.
Would Burns have confronted the moral and ethical consequences of slavery?
Lets hope that he would have!
I think he probably would have -- mere speculation, of course, but Burns did see when the ideal and the reality did not match -- think for example, of his support for the French Revolution, which was later tempered by the excesses of the Reign of Terror and destruction of the Rights of Man, which he so strongly believed in.

T.