Old Photographs Inveresk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shop and people in Inveresk located to the South of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. James Wedderburn lived in this part of Scotland. He made his fortune as a slave owning sugar plantation owner in Jamaica. When his son by one of his slaves, Robert Wedderburn, travelled to Inveresk to claim his kinship he was insultingly rejected by his father who gave him some small beer and a broken or bent sixpence. This experience turned Robert Wedderburn to radicalism.

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