A New report from Community Land Scotland has shown that over 1/3 of the Highlands and Islands has been in the hands of people that benefitted from slavery.
“Slavery-derived wealth helped sustain and shape the pattern of monopoly private landownership in the west Highlands and islands that persists to this day.” – Dr Calum MacLeod, Community Land Scotland’s Policy Director.
Read the paper published by Community Land Scotland – ‘Plantation slavery and landownership in the west Highlands and Islands: legacies and lessons.’
Watch the authors discuss their research on BBC ALBA’s European current affairs programme Eòrpa on Thursday, November 12 at 8.30pm.
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