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    A SCATTERED PEOPLE

    Jun 18, 2021 5 minutes
    Words by ROBERT JAMES

    We ended part one of this deep dive into the Highland Clearances in Sutherland with Patrick Sellar’s brutal evictions of the tenants from the inland straths and hills of the Highland Estate of the Countess of Sutherland. Forced evictions and relocation of tenants to the coast continued after Sellar’s departure and while these clearances were not as brutal as those in Strathnaver, they were executed without compassion.

    Forced evictions from ancestral lands were just the start of the problems for the peasantry. The fifteen thousand people relocated to the coasts were offered small strips of unimproved land, the populace so densely packed that 30 families existed on an area that would previously have occupied 12. The Highland croft had been born and with it, a new class of people: crofters.

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