This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the longforgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotlands economic social and cultural development and draws out the implications for current debates on Scotlands national narratives of identity. Eighteenth to nineteenthcentury Scottish writers are reexamined in this new light. Morris explores the ways that discourses of improvement in both Scotland and the Caribbean are mediated by the modes of pastoral and georgic which struggle to explain and contain the labour conditions of agricultural labourers both free and enslaved. The ambivalent relationship of Scottish writers including Robert Burns to questions around abolition allows fresh perspectives on the era. Furthermore Morris considers the origins of a hybrid ScottishCreole identity through two nineteenthcentury figures Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. The final chapter moves forward to consider the implications for postdevolution postreferendum Scotland. Underpinning this investigation is the conviction that collective memory is a key feature which shapes behaviour and beliefs in the present the recovery of the memory of slavery is performed here in the interests of social justice in the present. ampampnbsp