Summary of Neal Thompson's The First Kennedys

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Bridget Murphy was one of the millions of Irish people who were forced to flee their homes during the Great Irish Potato Famine. She was driven to leave home and family behind and travel to a new land.
#2 The Irish potato fields had rotted into sickening wastelands, and the mass emigration that started in 1846 had by 1847 reached a full house-on-fire, run-for-your-life stampede. Men and women who’d never ventured beyond the next town flooded into Liverpool, desperate for a ship to anywhere.
#3 Women like Bridget were escaping Ireland in search of a better life, and America seemed like the perfect place to do it.
#4 A generation of Bridgets chose to take a chance on a new dawn rather than wait for marriage in an ancient land run by church and queen. Many left home, wings wide, with a sense of adventure and optimism.

Sujets

• United States
• 19th century

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669368953
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Bridget Murphy was one of the millions of Irish people who were forced to flee their homes during the Great Irish Potato Famine. She was driven to leave home and family behind and travel to a new land.

#2

The Irish potato fields had rotted into sickening wastelands, and the mass emigration that started in 1846 had by 1847 reached a full house-on-fire, run-for-your-life stampede. Men and women who’d never ventured beyond the next town flooded into Liverpool, desperate for a ship to anywhere.

#3

Women like Bridget were escaping Ireland in search of a better life, and America seemed like the perfect place to do it.

#4

A generation of Bridgets chose to take a chance on a new dawn rather than wait for marriage in an ancient land run by church and queen. Many left home, wings wide, with a sense of adventure and optimism.

#5

The Irish exodus prompted the passage of new laws to protect the rights of overseas travelers. The ship required six pints of water per person per day, and a pound of food. The crew was notorious for mistreating Irish passengers.

#6

The St. Petersburg was an unlucky ship, and its history resembled that of hundreds of workhorse vessels that crisscrossed the Atlantic through the late 1840s. It was owned by the Boston-based Enoch Train and Company, and was part of an expanding fleet of ships that carried humans from Cork and Liverpool to America.

#7

The Famine caused thousands of Irish to flee to America. The ships that took them there were converted transatlantic slave ships, which advertised what they offered and what they didn’t: food and speed.

#8

The conditions on board ships were terrible. The most dangerous were American ships, which were known to be safer and more sanitary than the cheaper, less well regulated British ships.

#9

The Tarolinta, which was filled with Irish refugees, landed in Boston in June 1847. The St. Petersburg, which was filled with Irish refugees, landed in Boston the first week of 1848 after 62 days at sea. The two ships’ arrivals earned a thirty-six-word brief in the Boston Pilot.

#10

When Bridget finally stepped ashore, she was met with chaotic scenes of hustlers, livery cabs, streetside food carts, and employers seeking workers. She was eventually approached by relatives in Boston who had come from a long line of Barrons.

#11

Bridget Murphy was an eager, unwed farm-to-city Irish woman who arrived in Boston in 1825. She was hardly alone in gambling that America would offer freedom from the social and economic constraints of a country in crisis.

#12

The Murphys’ farm was small, with just one brother to help at home. The three younger sisters took on the chores of sustenance and survival. They kept the peat fire stoked, boiled oats or cornmeal in milk for the morning stirabout, and fed the pig.