To narrow their scope, the researchers surveyed a northern portion of the western Highlands and Islands (most commonly defined as Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles). The episode is not accessible in the United States, but United Kingdom–based viewers can watch it via the BBC’s website. The pair’s research also features in a new episode of “ Eòrpa,” a BBC current-affairs show anchored by journalist Ruairidh MacIver. Iain MacKinnon of Coventry University and Andrew Mackillop of the University of Glasgow detailed their findings in a discussion paper published by Community Land Scotland, a nonprofit that represents the country’s community landowners. Known today as the Highland Clearances, this era of drastic depopulation sparked the collapse of the traditional clan system and the mass migration of Scotland’s northernmost residents to other parts of the world.Īs Alison Campsie reports for the Scotsman, new research argues that this pivotal period in Scottish history had close ties to the enslavement of people in British colonies, with a cadre of individuals enriched by slavery evicting at least 5,000 people from their property and buying up more than one million acres of land relinquished during the clearances. Between roughly 17, wealthy landowners forcibly evicted thousands of Scottish Highlanders in order to create large-scale sheep farms.
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