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Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:11pm On May 19, 2017 |
'BOYCOTT' this is a word we use mostly in our day to day conversation but few people know the origin of this word. It was named after Charles boycott. Most people dont know sir Charles but he is famous. Sir charles boycott was a land agent in Scotland. He managed the land on behalf of the rich aristocrat living far away in england. He had peasants who worked the land and payed rent.
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Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:15pm On May 19, 2017 |
Due to the economic downturn of the 18th century, most people could not pay their rent. So they approached charles boycott to ask for a reduction in rent but he refused. |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:20pm On May 19, 2017 |
So they decided to get back at boycott by disassociating with him. Nobody was to talk to him, buy from him, sell to him, nobody even wanted to sit with him in church. The peasant excommunicated him. No body agreed to work for him. He had to do all his chores. Nobody agreed to help him harvest his crops. |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:23pm On May 19, 2017 |
Where does the term “boycott”
come from? Many might be
surprised it originates from Ireland
in the time of Charles Stuart
Parnell.
Charles Cunningham Boycott
(March 12, 1832 – June 19, 1897)
was an English land agent who
became infamous after he was
ignored and ostracized by his Mayo
Irish community in Ireland after
treating them very badly.
Their actions gave the English
language the verb to boycott.
Boycott was a former army officer
and had served in the British Army
39th Regiment, which brought him
to Ireland. After retiring from the
army, Boycott worked as a land
agent for Lord Erne, a major
landowner in the Lough Mask area
of County Mayo who lived off the
exorbitant rents he charged
tenants. Evictions by Boycott were
many and bloody. |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:25pm On May 19, 2017 |
In 1880, as part of Charles Stewart
Parnell and the Land League’s
campaign for the Three Fs (fair
rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale)
and opposition to evictions which
were numerous and heartbreaking,
action was taken against money
grabbing landlords.
When Boycott set about evicting 11
tenants the locals had had enough.
The Mayo branch of the Irish Land
League urged Boycott's employees
to withdraw their labor and began a
campaign of isolation against
Boycott in the local community.
This campaign included shops in
nearby Ballinrobe refusing to serve
him, and the withdrawal of services.
Boycott found himself a marked
man, not fearing violence but even
worse the scorn, silence and
disdain of simply everyone he
encountered.. |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:28pm On May 19, 2017 |
Furious, he made a fatal mistake by
informing the all powerful London
media of his plight. The campaign
against Boycott became a huge
issue in the British press after he
wrote the following letter to The
Times.
“Sir, The following detail may be
interesting to your readers as
exemplifying the power of the Land
League. On the 22nd September a
process-server, escorted by a
police force of seventeen men,
retreated to my house for
protection, followed by a howling
mob of people, who yelled and
hooted at the members of my
family |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:31pm On May 19, 2017 |
“On the ensuing day, September
23rd, the people collected in
crowds upon my farm, and some
hundred or so came up to my
house and ordered off, under
threats of ulterior consequences,
all my farm labourers, workmen,
and stablemen, commanding them
never to work for me again.
“My herd has been frightened by
them into giving up his
employment, though he has
refused to give up the house he
held from me as part of his
emolument. Another herd on an off
farm has also been compelled to
resign his situation.
“My blacksmith has received a
letter threatening him with murder
if he does any more work for me,
and my laundress has also been
ordered to give up my washing. A
little boy, twelve years of age, who
carried my post-bag to and from
the neighbouring town of
Ballinrobe, was struck and
threatened on 27th September,
and ordered to desist from his
work; since which time I have sent
my little nephew for my letters and
even he, on 2nd October, was
stopped on the road and
threatened if he continued to act as
my messenger.
“The shopkeepers have been
warned to stop all supplies to my
house, and I have just received a
message from the post mistress to
say that the telegraph messenger
was stopped and threatened on the
road when bringing out a message
to me and that she does not think it
safe to send any telegrams which
may come for me in the future for
fear they should be abstracted and
the messenger injured. My farm is
public property; the people wander
over it with impunity. My crops are
trampled upon, carried away in
quantities, and destroyed
wholesale.
“The locks on my gates are
smashed, the gates thrown open,
the walls thrown down, and the
stock driven out on the roads. I can
get no workmen to do anything,
and my ruin is openly avowed as
the object of the Land League
unless I throw up everything and
leave the country. I say nothing
about the danger to my own life,
which is apparent to anybody who
knows the country.
CHARLES C. BOYCOTT |
Re: Origin of the word BOYCOTT by Sebastine1994(m): 11:35pm On May 19, 2017 |
This was the remodel house of charles boycott
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