HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Manumission, Hands Tied, Irish Rebellion Of 1641

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Understand the causes of 19th century global migrations. Learn about the major migration trends between 1835-1890. Examine two case studies of mass migration: causes and context. People moves and became agents of change (technological ideas, culture, intellectual ideas) Reasons why societies have changed: internal contradictions, adaption with the environment, interactions with natives. Types of migration: involuntary migrations- ex, slaves, those who were convicts in their home countries, didn"t want to go to war, voluntary migrations- ex, missionaries. *difficult to determine between the two; ambiguous; thin line. A curious conjuncture": emancipation of slavery and mass migration- millions of people moved because of slavery abolition, industrial revolution and global migration- The day freedom came- 1838; colony-wide celebrations, joined hands with abolitionists. Experiments with labour: bring labourers from places like sierra leone and around africa, could not continue this for very long, many came from portugal, germany, java (dutch), china, india.

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