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Highland Clearances

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Highland Clearances

Forced removal of tenants from large estates in Scotland during the early 19th century, as landowners ‘improved’ their estates by switching from arable to sheep farming. It led ultimately to widespread emigration to North America.



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In the notorious nineteenth-century Highland Clearances, Scottish landlords turned land that tenants had farmed for generations into grazing land for sheep.
Helen Frost The Braid by Long, Joanna Rudge / The Horn Book Magazine
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