“While the clearances in Sutherland were at their height in the second decade of the 19th century, around 1815, the clearances of the late 1840s and early 1850s – in places like South Uist and Barra – were far worse in terms of sheer brutality.”
—James Hunter, Director of the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands & Islands, selects five books on the history of the Highland Clearances
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/james-hunter-on-the-highland-clearances/
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