Where does the word 'boycott' come from?

In 1880, Charles Cunningham Boycott, born in 1832, was an estate agent of absentee landlord the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. Because of the poor economic conditions and lackluster harvest at the time, members of the Tenants' Land League requested that their rent be lowered. Not only did Boycott refuse to reduce the rent, he also served eviction notices on the tenants. They didn't take kindly to Boycott's response. The tenants retaliated by isolating Boycott and his family in his local community. Neighbors shunned them, laborers refused to harvest the estate's crops, shopkeepers wouldn't sell to them; even the mailman declined to deliver mail to the family's home. The name Boycott became synonymous with the word "ostracize."

 

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