User:LorraineDoig

Hi I am Lorraine Doig and am a mature student studying Art and Humanities, I am an active member of a Scottish Women's History Group named the DRB's Damned Rebel Bitches, name taken from when the Duke of Cumberland referred to the women in the Jacobite rebellion. Recently our group took part in updating Wikipedia on four quaker women from our exhibition (Priscilla Bright McLaren, Jane Smeal, Eliza Wigham and Elizabeth Pease) ' Women on the Platform' which was held in the Museum of Edinburgh, these women were immensely involved in the campaign for emancipation of slavery. I am interested in Scottish Women in history and the slave trade and how slavery is still in existence more so today than ever, I like to spend time researching history on these subjects and also have an interest in slavery in todays secular world, and like to think of myself as an activist. Presently I am researching the Hindu caste system and in particular looking at the outcasts the untouchables and their plight of being accepted and freeing themselves from this stigma. Please feel free to post me links on any information regarding my interests.