User:Lirazelf/sandbox/Glasgow

List of articles & place to record articles, pictures, and other stuff relating to Glasgow's slave trade history.

Starting places

 * Merchant City - lead section needs expansion, article mentions tobacco lords but not slavery.
 * Tobacco Lords - additional references, some parts not cited. Includes list of notable tobacco lords. wording obfuscatory? not sure.

Buildings & places

 * Ramshorn Cemetary
 * Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
 * Buchanan Street
 * Glassford Street
 * St Andrew's in the Square

language

 * tobacco merchant
 * slave trader
 * how do we talk about the enslaved? what terminology is used, and does that reflect accuracy?

wikidata

 * adding "slave trader", "slave owner" or similar? link to plantations / UCL database?

Commons

 * Images of buildings, monuments, street signs?
 * category?

Notable(?) tobacco lords
How do we approach this? What thinking do we need to do around writing these men's histories?
 * Andrew Buchanan
 * Andrew Cochrane of Brighouse
 * Andrew Caskie of Kilcreggan
 * William Cunninghame
 * James Dunlop
 * John Glassford
 * Logan Lowe of Aberdeen
 * Alexander Oswald
 * Alexander Speirs
 * George Bogle of Daldowie

Thoughts for events

 * Need for experienced editors to defend / back up edits made; risk of reversion and vandalism
 * need for non-white wikimedians...
 * strategy around publicity
 * training in advance? BLM Glasgow?
 * Slavery

People to contact
Lesley, Charles Matthews