Passage to America: A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-nineteenth Century by Terry Coleman

Passage to America: A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-nineteenth Century

Terry Coleman

320 pages • first pub 1972 (view editions)

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In the middle years of the last century more than two million men, women and children abandoned the British Isles. The Irish were shovelled out by absentee landlords and famine. The English went west to escape poverty and slums. Sea-sick, homesick...

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