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Boycott: From Surname to Protest

Boycott: From Surname to Protest

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Where does the word boycott come from? In this episode of Origins in Five, we trace the term back to Captain Charles Boycott, an English land agent in 1880s Ireland whose social isolation gave the world a new word for collective nonviolent protest.

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