This is a touchy subject. My various antecedents came over to the US long before the clearances, and rather before there was a US. I think this is true of many if not most Scots here, so it isn't common that we really have a stake in this abuse. Some thoughts that have come to me as I pondered the story:

I was glad to hear that those being evicted fought back.

As for their faring better for having been cleared, the same has been said of enslaved Africans.

How many Scots left their homeland and why?

Who now owns the land? (Have the original problems been resolved?) (Should we come back?)