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The Agnes left Liverpool in black 47 with 427 Irish people on board. It reached Québec with just 150
Less than 10ft per person & only 7lbs of bread per week
Approx 1/4 of all famine refugees died seeking asylum
This is why the Irish call them coffin ships.
It was a Genocide!
Less than 10ft per person & only 7lbs of bread per week
Approx 1/4 of all famine refugees died seeking asylum
This is why the Irish call them coffin ships.
It was a Genocide!
The Irish would routinely be locked below deck on these ships & the workers wouldn't even collect the dead
The British wouldn't regulate the ships because an increase in cost would mean that more Irish would go to America instead of Canada
Have you ever heard of....
The British wouldn't regulate the ships because an increase in cost would mean that more Irish would go to America instead of Canada
Have you ever heard of....
An American wake?
Families in Ireland would scrape and scrounge enough to send one or two family members to America, knowing that they'd never see them again and that the rest family would most likely die of starvation soon after they had left anyway...
The American wake!
Families in Ireland would scrape and scrounge enough to send one or two family members to America, knowing that they'd never see them again and that the rest family would most likely die of starvation soon after they had left anyway...
The American wake!
