Lord Carloway made his comment as a plaque marking a landmark slavery case was unveiled.
Sir Geoff Palmer, who recently carried out a review of Edinburgh's historic links with slavery, welcomed the plaqueUnveiling a plaque in Edinburgh, Lord Carloway said it was important to mark the "true extent" of Scotland's historic role in the slave trade.The plaque was praised by academic Sir Geoff Palmer who has reviewed the capital's links with the slave trade.
When he tried to leave the slaveowner's service to go and live with the woman he had married, the wealthy landowner had him arrested. He quoted one of the judges in Knight v Wedderburn, who said: "We sit here to enforce right, not to enforce wrong." He said Scotland was involved in the transatlantic slave trade and African people had been brought to Scotland long before the Act of Union in 1707.
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