A portrait of Tobacco Lord John Glassford, his family and an enslaved Black servant c. 1767
The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants active during the Georgian era who made substantial sums of money via their participation in the triangular trade, primarily through dealing in slave-produced tobacco that was grown in the Thirteen Colonies. Concentrated in the port city of Glasgow, these merchants utilised their fortunes, which were also partly made via the direct ownership of slaves, to construct numerous townhouses, churches and other buildings in Scotland.[1]
^"Lost Glasgow: The tobacco lords". Scotsman. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
The TobaccoLords were a group of Scottish merchants active during the Georgian era who made substantial sums of money via their participation in the...
Scottish merchant and planter. One of the most prominent TobaccoLords of Scotland, Glassford owned tobacco-producing slave plantations in the British North American...
commerce that gave rise to the Chesapeake Consignment System and TobaccoLords. American tobacco farmers would sell their crops on consignment to merchants...
House of Lords. 2007. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2007. Robert, Joseph C (1976). "The TobaccoLords: A study of...
the Americas, especially in sugar, tobacco, cotton, and manufactured goods. Starting in 1668, the city's TobaccoLords created a deep water port at Port...
January 1691 – 20 December 1759) was a Scottish tobacco merchant who was one of Glasgow's "TobaccoLords". He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1740...
in slave ownership, made a group of Glasgow merchants known as the "TobaccoLords" very wealthy; they adopted the lifestyle of the landed gentry, and...
taxi and bus corridor network. Many of the TobaccoLords profited from the use of slaves to pick their tobacco crop. As part of the Black Lives Matter campaign...
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food supply and growing trade with the Americans that produced the TobaccoLords of Glasgow, the trade in sugar and rum and Paisley in cloth. There was...
linen. There was growing trade with the Americas, which produced the TobaccoLords of Glasgow, the trade in sugar and rum from Greenock, while Paisley...
the cash flows from military service, and the tobacco trade that was dominated by Glasgow TobaccoLords after 1740. Merchants who profited from the American...
Clyde due to sandbanks and shallows, the Glasgow merchants such as the TobaccoLords wanted harbour access, but got into arguments with Greenock over harbour...
19th centuries, several memorial to Glasgow's TobaccoLords, who made their fortune in slave-produced tobacco, were erected in the cathedral. The included...
people. In Scotland, a petition to rename Glasgow streets named after TobaccoLords who owned slave plantations in America and Jamaica received almost 8000...
Scottish merchant based in Glasgow who was one of the TobaccoLords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, such as tan...
Glasgow began to take over Whitehaven's tobacco trade, leading to the later creation of Glasgow's TobaccoLords. By the second half of the 18th century...
of the tobacco trade, re-exporting particularly to France. The merchants dealing in this lucrative business became the wealthy tobaccolords, who dominated...
(1973) A Sort of Peace (1973) The Prisoner (1974) The Prince and the TobaccoLords (1976) Roots of Bondage (1977) Scorpion in the Fire (1977) The Dark...
by Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier and other "Virginia Dons": Glasgow tobaccolords of the mid-18th century. It underwent several changes in ownership....
go further up the River Clyde, the Glasgow merchants including the TobaccoLords wanted harbour access but were in disputes with Greenock over harbour...
military service, and the tobacco trade that was dominated by Glasgow after 1740. The clippers belonging to the Glasgow TobaccoLords were the fastest ships...
associated orchards. In 1750 the Crawford family sold the estate to TobaccoLords Alexander Houston, whose family was also forced to sell the estate in...
to Glasgow Green. Residences and warehouses of the wealthy merchant "tobaccolords" were built in the area. The district west of the congested High Street...
city merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the TobaccoLords from whom many of the streets take their name. As the Industrial Revolution...
& Glassford, a powerful trading company. They made their fortune as TobaccoLords, with plantations in the east coast of America. He was involved in the...
ISBN 0-7623-1298-X, pp. 23–4. Robert, Joseph C. (1976), "The TobaccoLords: A study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Activities", The Virginia...
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