Contents

Illustrations

7

Contributors

9

Preface

12

Introduction

1. Myth, Migration and the Makingof Memory: An Introduction

Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance

14

Myth

2. The Myth of Scotch America

Edward J. Cowan

49

3. Surveying the Remains of a Highland Myth: Investigations at the Birthplace of Flora MacDonald, Airigh-mhuilinn, South Uist

James Symonds

73

4. Scottishness and Britishness in America, 1790-1914

J.M. Bumsted

89

Migration

5. Leaving the Highlands: Colonial Destinations in America and Australia

Eric Richards

105

6. Historical Archaeology and Migrations: Barra Blackhouse Abandonment and Mid-nineteenth Century Migration to America

Keith Branigan

127

7. A Highland Regiment in Halifax: The 78th Highland Regiment of Foot and the Scottish National/Cultural Factor in America's Capital, 1869-71

FIH Pulsifer

141

8. "Advent'rous Merchants and Atlantic Waves":A Preliminary Study of the Scottish Contributions to Book Availability in Halifax, 1752-1810

Fiona A. Black

157

9.Mediating a Scottish Enlightenment Ideal: The Presbyterian Dissenter Attack on Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century America

Barry Cahill

189

10. Scottish Influences in Nineteenth-century American Medicine: A Study of Professional, Class and Ethnic Identity

Colin D. Howell

202

11. Victorian Philanthrophy and Child Rescue: The Career of Emma Stirling in Scotland and America, 1860-95

Philip Girard

218

12. Notes from Eastern America: Scottish Immigration to the Maritime Provinces in the 1920s

Marjory Harper

232

Memory

13. On Remembering and Forgetting: Highland Memories within the Maritime Diaspora

Rusty Bitterman

253

14. "Lochaber no more": A Critical Examination of Highland Emigration Mythology

Michael Kennedy

267

15. Above and Below Ground: Metaphors of Identity in Fictional Texts from Scotia and America

Uwe Zagratski

298

Index

313