In the centre of Edinburgh stands a 150 foot high monument to a man known as the "Uncrowned King of Scotland". Melville monument is erected to memorialise Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount of Melville - a man whose deliberate actions postponed the abolition of slavery and sent a further 500,000 people to their death in enslavement camps, politely known as plantations. What is Scotland's history of slavery? In this hour long special, we face the uncomfortable truth. 

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