Tour Scotland 4K early Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Ballindean, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Ballindean with Ballindean House and West Ballindean lies at the foot of the Braes of Carse, to the west of Baledgarno between Perth and Dundee. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands.. Sir John Wedderburn of Ballindean, 6th Baronet of Blackness, born 1729, died 1803 was a Scottish landowner who made a fortune in slave sugar in the West Indies. Born into a family of impoverished Perthshire gentry, his father, Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, was executed for treason following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and the young Wedderburn was forced to flee to the West Indies, where he eventually became the largest landowner in Jamaica. In 1769 he returned to Scotland with an enslaved man, one Joseph Knight, who was inspired by Somersett's Case, a judgment in London determining that slavery did not exist under English law. Wedderburn was sued by Knight in a freedom suit, and lost his case, establishing the principle that Scots law would not uphold the institution of slavery either. Wedderburn ended his days as a wealthy country gentleman, having restored his family fortune and recovered the title Baronet of Blackness. #summer #drivingtrip #scotland #music #bagpipes
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