This chapter incorporates material drawn from T. M. Devine, To the Ends of the Earth (London, 2011), Chapter 5.
1. Witness, 21 November 1846.
2. Scotsman, 12 December 1846.
3. NRS, HD6/2, Treasury Correspondence, Trevelyan to Baird, 19 March 1847.
4. Ibid.
5. Thomas Mulock, The Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland Socially Considered (Edinburgh, 1850), pp. 81–2.
6. Scotsman, 30 July 1850.
7. Anon., The Depopulation System in the Highlands (Edinburgh, 1849), p. 23.
8. D. Clark, ‘On the Agriculture of the County of Argyll’, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 4th series, X (1878), p. 95; Mulock, Western Highlands, p. 66.
9. NRS, HD7/76, Trevelyan to W. Skene, 26 June 1848.
10. Scotsman, 25 August 1849.
11. Cited in Stephen P. Walker, ‘Agents of Dispossession and Acculturation. Edinburgh Accountants and the Highland Clearances’, Critical Perspectives in Accounting, 14 (2003), p. 820.
12. John Pinkerton, An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III (Edinburgh, 1794), p. 339.
13. Reginald Horsman, ‘Origins of Racial Anglo-Saxonism in Great Britain before 1850’, Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXVII (1976), p. 387.
14. Jürgen Osterhammel, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Princeton, 2005), pp. 16–17. Cited in Iain Mackinnon, ‘Colonialism and the Highland Clearances’, Northern Scotland, 8, 2017, p. 25.
15. NRS, HD4/1, Letterbook of Highland and Island Emigration Society (HIES) (1), Trevelyan to Miss Neave, 20 January 1852.
16. NRS, HD4/2, Letterbook of HIES (2), Trevelyan to Sir J. McNeil, 14 August 1852 and Commissary-General Miller, 30 June 1852.
17. Scotsman, 26 July 1851.
18. MS Diary of J. M. Mackenzie, 1851, Chamberlain of Lewis, 5 April 1851.
19. PP, Report and Evidence of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1884, XXXII–XXXVI, Napier Commission, QQ.1430, 16967–8.
20. NRS, HD7/47, William Skene to Sir Charles Trevelyan, 21 February 1848.
21. Destitution Papers, Second Report of the Edinburgh Section (1849). Sir E. P. Coffin to W. Skene, 29 June 1848.
22. NRS, AF49/6, Report of T. G. Dickson as acting for the trustee on Sir James M. Riddell’s estate; Diary of J. M. Mackenzie, 1851; Inverary Castle (IC), Argyll Estate Papers, Bundles 1522–31.
23. IC, Argyll Estate Papers, Bundle 1558, Duke of Argyll to J. Campbell, 5 May 1851.
24. PP, Papers Relative to Emigration to the the British Provinces in North America, XXII (1852), Sir J. Matheson to A. C. Buchanan, 10 October 1851.
25. IC, Argyll Estate Papers, Bundle 1804, List of tenants and cottars warned of removal, 1850; Bundle 1623, Campbell to Duke of Argyll, 25 April 1854.
26. All examples come from T. G. Goldie’s report in NS, AF49/6.
27. Donald E. Meek, ed., Tuath is Tighearna: Tenants and Landlords (Edinburgh, 1995), p. 204.
28. Cited in J. Stewart Cameron, A History of the Ross of Mull (Bunessan, 2013), p. 250.
29. Scotsman, 8 June 2005.
30. PP, VI (1841), Select Committee on Emigration, 1841, p. 87.
31. The Duke of Argyll, Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides (Edinburgh, 1883), p. 18.
32. Ibid., p. 64.
33. IC, Argyll Estate Papers, Bundle 1522, J. Campbell to Duke of Argyll, 21 August 1844.
34. Napier Commission, pp. 22–71.