Editing Glasgow (section)

===Scottish Reformation===

Following the European Protestant [[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]] and with the encouragement of the [[Convention of Royal Burghs]], the 14 incorporated trade crafts federated as the Trades House in 1605 to match the power and influence in the town council of the earlier Merchants' Guilds who established their Merchants House in the same year.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Glasgow was subsequently raised to the status of [[Royal Burgh]] in 1611.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10359752|title=Glasgow Burgh|publisher=Vision of Britain|access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> [[Daniel Defoe]] visited the city in the early 18th century and famously opined in his book ''[[A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain]]'', that Glasgow was "the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted". At that time the city's population was about 12,000, and the city was yet to undergo the massive expansionary changes to its economy and urban fabric, brought about by the [[Scottish Enlightenment]] and Industrial Revolution.

The city prospered from its involvement in the [[triangular trade]] and the [[Atlantic slave trade]] that the former depended upon. Glasgow merchants dealt in slave-produced [[cash crop]]s such as sugar, tobacco, cotton and linen.<ref name="Lambert 2021">{{cite web |last=Lambert |first=Tim |title=A History of Glasgow |website=Local Histories |date=14 March 2021 |url=https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-glasgow/ |access-date=2 November 2021 |archive-date=2 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102201701/https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-glasgow/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Slavery, Glasgow Plantation Owners in Jamaica">{{cite web |title=Glasgow Plantation Owners in Jamaica – Legacies of Slavery in Glasgow Museums and Collections |website=Legacies of Slavery in Glasgow Museums and Collections |date=29 August 2018 |url=https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2018/08/29/glasgow-plantation-owners-in-jamaica/ |access-date=2 November 2021 |archive-date=2 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102202107/https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2018/08/29/glasgow-plantation-owners-in-jamaica/ |url-status=live}}</ref> From 1717 to 1766, Scottish [[slave ship]]s operating out of Glasgow transported approximately 3,000 enslaved Africans to the Americas (out of a total number of 5,000 slaves carried by ships from Scotland). The majority of these slaving voyages left from Glasgow's satellite ports, [[Greenock]] and [[Port Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://it.wisnae.us/glasgow-and-the-slave-trade/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20slaves%20transported,last%20slaving%20voyage%20from%20Scotland | title=Glasgow and the Slave Trade – It Wisnae Us }}</ref>