Conway Mill Trust

The word “boycott” originated in the 19^th Century with the Irish peasantry when they rented their lands from absentee landlords who paid an agent to supervise the estate.  One such agent was a wicked Captain Boycott.  The tenants, in order not to break the law by assaulting him, ostracized him and his family, and no one in the community would speak or trade with them, and they were treated as though they did not exist.  They were forced to leave Ireland but returned many years later and he admitted his wrongdoing.