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The story From Famine to Five Points is based on experiences of Lansdowne's people and their immigration from Europe to North America's Most Notorious Slum. Tyler uses individual's experiences to highlight the social, economic and political transformation of this population from the famine and disease stricken mountain region of Kerry to the Most Notorious area in New York. Tyler Anbinder tells the story of Ellen Holland and her journey from Kerry parish of Kenmare to New York. An English nobleman Henry Petty Lansdowne made it possible for the Irish immigrants including Holland as he financed the emigration program in Europe. He was an influential politician serving in whig cabinet and owned large tracks of land from which all those emigrants he assisted came from. The Lansdowne tenants especially those who lived in the mountain regions, were the poorest. In the summer, they would leave their cabins to walk long distances through the counties in search of work. In the autumn, they would go begging in the low country as it was the harvest season. By 1848, the living conditions in this region was dire, the cabins here were filthy with the occupants clothed in tatters.
The potato blight attack on the farms made things worse there was wide-spread famine. People were emaciated...
The deprivation of the locals was ignored, and the government kept itself involved in the corrupt practices, 'since 2000, the government has been accused of transference of most of Zimbabwe's white-owned agriculture land to black political elites with no interest in, or aptitude for, farming' (Steffen, 2005), such measures resulted in the massive downfall of the agricultural goods. This is not to be considered a natural famine, instead an
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