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enslaved people (in chapter 5), such as Janet Macarthur, a spinning mistress on the island of Lismore; Glasgow, a young enslaved boy living and working at a tobacco store in Colchester, Virginia; and Beck, an enslaved woman living beside him, with potential seamstress skills.Transatlantic Threads is a thorough and valuable book that will be of interest to economic, Scottish, Atlantic, and art historians alike, and an important contribution to pressing and ongoing discussions surrounding Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism more broadly.As Tuckett writes in her conclusion, the linen industry was key to positioning Scotland within the British nation and empire, and it continued to contribute to Scotland's wealth well into the nineteenth century.Even though cotton later superseded the production of linen, linen's production methods and distribution markets were key to enabling cotton's success.