Adventurers and Exiles
by Marjory Harper
A comprehensive account of the 19th-century exodus of almost two million men, women and children from Scotland to a new life overseas. When the clearances started, many people saw America as a land of opportunity, where they could obtain land, and landlords were trying to stop them emigrating. But after the potato blight in the 1840s the landowners just wanted to get rid of people, and they began shipping them across the Atlantic.
