that between 1811 and 1820, 15,000 tenants and crofters of the Sutherland lands were evicted
	from their homes and farms, and ordered to march to the sea-coasts to become fishers, so
	that the lands might be used by more affluent sheep-farmers and for hunting-grounds by
	Scottish and English absentee-landlords? Because of the passive resistance of a few,
	both houses and the heather-pasturage of the cattle were set on fire. A considerable number
	of deaths were caused by shock, grief, fatigue, and exposure, but such were the
	Highland Clearances in Sutherland and elsewhere.

	that Harriet Beecher Stowe, American authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and styled by
	Abraham Lincoln as "the little lady who started" the American War Between the States,
	wrote a lengthy account, in her Sunny Memo ties of Foreign Lands, (1854), discrediting
	all previous charges of injustice and cruelty of the Sutherland Clearances? Her "evidence,"
	however, was obtained only from the agent who instituted the Clearances, and Donald
	MacLeods rebuttal was: "If you took the information and evidence, upon which you founded
	your Uncle Tom's Cabin from such unreliable sources, who can believe one-tenth of
	your novel? I cannot."