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In 1846 and 1847, potatoes, the subsistence crop of the cottar subtenants who composed nearly half the population on some Hebridean estates, failed almost entirely.
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Hugh Raffles, The New York Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2020
Hugh Raffles, The New York Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2020
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“Cottar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cottar. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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