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Forget 'a man's a man for a' that' – Burns planned to make fortune from slave trade

Slavery was poet�s �blind spot� says lecturer By Lynn Kelly

HERALDED as a forward-looking champion of brotherhood who embraced all of humanity, national bard Robert Burns would have been in the business of people-trafficking - but took cold feet, according to a Burns expert.