Over recent decades, Scotland's involvement in colonialism has become increasingly prominent in scholarly and nonscholarly deliberations about Scottish history. Conversations about the Scottish contribution to expanding and buttressing the British Empire—and the manifestations of colonialism that linger in Scottish society today—took on increased urgency in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. The nation's historical connections to enslavement in the Caribbean and its enduring legacies have become a central aspect of the historiography of modern Scotland. In 2015, Scotland's most prominent historian T. M. Devine put the question succinctly: Did slavery make Scotia great?