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Historical person
c. 1698–1752
James Stewart of the Glen was a leader of the Stewarts of Appin who was convicted as an accessory to the Appin Murder and hanged in November 1752. His Campbell-dominated trial and execution became a lasting symbol of disputed justice and government repression in the post-Culloden Highlands.
Kidnapped introduces James amid the tensions over forfeited estates, while Catriona follows David Balfour’s attempt to give evidence that might save him. The prosecution, conviction and execution are historical. David Balfour’s testimony and personal involvement are fictional.
Series
The David Balfour novels follow a young Lowland Scot from dispossession and abduction into the unsettled political world left by the 1745 Jacobite rising. Kidnapped pairs David with the historical fugitive Allan Breck Stewart and makes the Appin Murder the climax of a journey through the Highlands. Catriona…
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