
About Colonies
The “colonia” was first established by the Roman empire:
“in order to pacify local populations and to act as recruiting stations for the imperial defence of Rome”.
That was the purpose of England’s Colonialism of Scotland.

Economic and political control, “can never be complete without mental control”
Of British colonialism in Kenya political commentator and novelist of note, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o wrote:
“Colonialism’s “most important area of domination is the mental universe of the colonised and the control, through culture, of how people perceive themselves and their relationship to the world”.
Such control is achieved, through the colonial child’s immersion in the imperial education system and its cultural norms “resulting in a dissociation of sensibility of that child from his natural and social environment, what we might call colonial alienation”.

Methodology
After the defeat of the Jacobite army at Culloden in 1746 explicitly expressed proposals and projects for colonization became increasingly apparent.
The estates of prominent Jacobite supporters were forfeited to the Crown to be governed by the Board for the Annexed Estates.
Led by Andrew Fletcher, the former Lord Justice Clerk, the Board’s commissioners were set the task of “civilising the inhabitants on the said estates, and other parts of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland”.
One of the means by which they set about the task was to introduce what the Commission called “colonies” of demobilised soldiers and sailors upon the forfeited estates.
One commissioner, the MP Gilbert Elliot, regarded the individual settlements as part of one larger colonial project, writing in 1755 that: “we have opened the Commission for the forfeited estates and flatter ourselves that under our protection a loyal, well policed colony will flourish’.
Of the failed venture he concluded: “internal colonization using demobilised soldiers and sailors failed in part because of poor planning and in part because the settlers were ill prepared for their new lives as colonists.
I commend the full article to readers
https://www.academia.edu/112135468/Colonialism_and_the_Highland_Clearances


















