‘Then went forth our Scots’

Abstract

This chapter considers the story of emigration from Glasgow across the Atlantic. Looking back to the religious persecutions of the seventeenth-century that drove Scots overseas, as well as the Darien Scheme to set up a Scots colony, it is shown how opportunities in the ‘New World’ were exploited via the British Empire. The work of writer and colonist John Galt is used as a case study.