Mackenzie gathers the testimony on how Highland landlords drove out their tenants to make room for sheep, beginning with Sutherland and including the Rev. Donald Sage, General Stewart of Garth and Hugh Miller, the defence by James Loch, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s praise of the Duchess and Donald Macleod’s furious reply, and then Ross, Skye and other districts.
A passionate and essential source for one of the bitterest chapters in Scottish history. Download the free EPUB.