Quotulatiousness

March 4, 2019

Irish Potato Famine – Black ’47 – Extra History – #3

Filed under: Britain, Food, History — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 2 Mar 2019

Watching the Irish suffer from the view of London, Sir Charles Trevelyan believed that the potato famine was part of God’s will. Inspired by the meritocracy-based philosophy of starvation that Thomas Malthus held, Treveylan created a relief plan with the sole goal of protecting the markets, and not the people. Thus the new year of “Black ’47” brought chaos and horror to the Irish people.

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