<p>Robert Burns & Black Lives</p><p>24 June, Alloway. Free – booking recommended</p><p>Clark McGinn examines Burns’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the paradoxes & moral conflicts during the poet’s time. He does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, presenting a nuanced portrait that challenges readers to reconcile Burns’s literary genius with the ethical ambiguities of his time.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-talk-clark-mcginn-on-burns-and-black-lives-tickets-1354716606839" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-talk-clark-mcginn-on-burns-and-black-lives-tickets-1354716606839"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlig</span><span class="invisible">ht-talk-clark-mcginn-on-burns-and-black-lives-tickets-1354716606839</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/transatlanticslavetrade/" rel="tag">#TransatlanticSlaveTrade</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a></p>