{"id":538,"date":"2017-06-15T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=538"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T09:56:00","slug":"the-ugly-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"The ugly truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_539\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"size-large wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR-1024x399.jpg\" alt=\"Extract from a letter dated 15 February 1772 in which Macintosh commissions branding irons with which to mark his slaves.\" width=\"625\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170614_134518435_HDR-624x243.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Extract from a letter dated 15 February 1772 in which Macintosh commissions branding irons with which to mark his slaves.\u00a0Biblioth\u00e8que Ceccano Ms. 1297.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=333\">written before<\/a> about Macintosh&#8217;s role as slave owner and trader and how uncomfortable it is to encounter in the archive evidence of the brutality and inhumanity of slavery. It is often the matter-of-fact way in which the purchase, management, and punishment of slaves is described that is so chilling; the extract above is just one example of that. It is from a letter sent by Macintosh in February 1772 in which he commissioned branding irons for use on slaves that he owned jointly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/lbs\/person\/view\/2146632156\">William Pulteney<\/a>. It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please to get made of silver set in a wooden handle, two such stamps as are underneath for marking our Tobago &amp; Dominico [<em>sic<\/em>] Slaves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written before about Macintosh&#8217;s role as slave owner and trader and how uncomfortable it is to encounter in the archive evidence of the brutality and inhumanity of slavery. It is often the matter-of-fact way in which the purchase, management, and punishment of slaves is described that is so chilling; the extract above is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}