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Extract
from the Inverness Courier, 1838, reporting on the arrival of
an emigrant agent.
Extract
from a letter to the Secretary of State for Scotland by the
fishermen of Fraserburgh, 1888.
Verses
from Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell, a traditional song from the point
of view of a man being transported. "It was early one morning,
just by the break of day…".
Photograph of crofters’ houses on the Isle of Harris, circa
1930.
Evidence
given by a church minister to the Royal Commission on the Poor
Law, 1844.
