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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    He was going to take a position on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, mostly due to the loss of "Highland Mary" and Jean Armour's father's legal proceedings against him.

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    Yes, I understand that, but what type of man would want to associate with sugar ot tobacco plantations in those days. There certainly is cause to consider whether Burns said more than his prayers with regards to the freedom of an individual

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
    Yes, I understand that, but what type of man would want to associate with sugar ot tobacco plantations in those days. There certainly is cause to consider whether Burns said more than his prayers with regards to the freedom of an individual
    A man who had lost just about everything in Scotland, and like many others, saw the New World as a place to start over. I think we should be careful not to judge him by our standards today.

    Burns is credited with writing "The Slave's Lament" which does deal with the injustices of slavery, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    A man who had lost just about everything in Scotland, and like many others, saw the New World as a place to start over. I think we should be careful not to judge him by our standards today.

    Burns is credited with writing "The Slave's Lament" which does deal with the injustices of slavery, though.

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    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!

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    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.

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