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A young man in 18th Century Glasgow, leads us on a powerful journey of over 500 years of resistance through the streets of the Merchant City down to the River Clyde. The story at the heart of Ghosts was inspired by adverts placed in newspapers for the capture of escaped enslaved people in Glasgow and the rest of Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries. These adverts have been collated in the "Runaway" Slavery project, which has seen the creation of a searchable archive of hundreds of real newspaper advertisements that were published by the city's slave-owners seeking, and often rewarding, the capture and return of the enslaved people who had escaped their service.

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Author: Adura Onashile