ns were deprived of their role in Highland society and their military power was removed. As much as the Highlanders loved their land, this indignity was enough to make some want to leave. No longer were the clansmen able to live a life of subsistence farming, military service to their chief, and cattle rustling. Plagued by economic welfare the clan chieftain now became a landlord and was forced to gain an economic return from the soil. Not only was this a time for political and social changes in the Highlands, but it was also a time for economic changes. "In a remarkably short space of time, the patriarc
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