Liverpool

• Context for liverpool

  • major port; 7 miles of docks
  • steam ship replaced sailing ships
  • 1905: most profitable port in the world; £237 million moved through
• Who migrated to Liverpool

  • Irish migrants
  • Indian sailors
  • African sailors
  • Chinese sailors
• How many Irish migrants came

  • 1850: over 250,000
  • 1847-48: 300000
• Why did they come tonliverpool

  • famine
  • short distance to Ireland
  • strong port to America
  • job opportunities at docks
• How many went from Liverpool to America in 1851

  159,840
• Illness STATS

  • 1847: 60,000 had typhus
  • Liverpool workhouse infirmary was helping
• WHat made Irish experience bad in liverpool

  • Prejudice: hard to get hired