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Nation, Migration, Globalisation, 1760-1860

John Sakehouse came to Leith from Greenland in 1816 and is believed to be the first Inuit to set foot in Scotland.

Image: John Sakeouse, 1797 - 1819. Inuit whaler and draughtsman, Alexander Nasmyth, National Galleries of Scotland

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