Burns and Black Lives

Would Burns 'Take the Knee' today?How could our Burns, the people's poet, look to become an instrument in what many now call 'The Black Holocaust'?Did Burns intend to travel knowing he would become a slavedriver, and broadly what that meant in terms of imposing suffering on others?Did this knowledge change his mind on emigrating to Jamaica?What would Burns have done had he actually gone?In the last decade of his life, as the debate for Abolition grew louder in Scotland, to what extent did this c