In my case without realizing I was ever gonna write a book about the Scottish Enlightenment, one of the places that we were attracted to reinvest and to, therefore, build the country of Scotland ...

Domenica did not answer immediately. She looked away, as if to marshal her thoughts on a complex subject. Then she said, “Pirate Enlightenment?” and gave Big Lou a sceptical look before her verdict ...

The ideas of this Scottish Enlightenment are exported to the colonies and fan the flames of revolution against the evils and cruelties of Empire.