The Humanitarian Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century to Remedy Abuses on Emigrant Vessels to America

There are few more remarkable developments during the nineteenth century than the movement overseas from the United Kingdom, which was to people first the backwoods of Canada and later the other Dominions. The history of this great exodus has been written only in part and one aspect has been practically neglected—the story of the Atlantic passage. Not only does this form a most important chapter in the history of emigration, but it also reveals an aspect of the humanitarian movement which has never been emphasized. It is therefore proposed in the following pages to trace the efforts made to secure the enactment of laws enforcing humane conditions on the passage to America, to follow the steps taken to secure the efficient administration of these laws, and to consider whether these efforts led to any radical improvement

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• Settlement by Chance

  Open Access•J M Bumsted•Canadian Historical Review•1978

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• Emigration and the State, 1803–1842

  Open Access•Peter R Dunkley, Peter Dunkley•The Historical Journal•1980

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