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Jul 11, 2016 · Human Cargo. One of our core ambitions has always been to tell the long story of migration into and out of this country – partly because every immigrant into one country is an emigrant from another, and partly because people forget that, until the 1970s, the United Kingdom was a net exporter of people: more people left the country than ...
This rich, timely book gives voice to emigrants, slaves, convicts and other human cargo from the 18th and 19th centuries. Its striking mix of story and folk song sets these past voices beside testimony from today – so shedding new light on a defining disaster of our time.
An unusual blend of TED-style lecture and close harmony folksong, HUMAN CARGO: Stories & Songs of Emigration, Slavery & Transportation has wowed folk club and festival audiences alike. It draws on Matthew Crampton’s book of the same name.
Mar 3, 2005 · Human Cargo is a difficult, but absolutely essential, read. Compelling and harrowing, Moorehead takes the reader through a global account of the refugee crisis - a patchwork of modern history and human accounts. Crucially, she succeeds at humanising the numbers.
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Apr 1, 2007 · Human Cargo is a work of deep and subtle sympathy that completely alters our understanding of what it means to have and lose a place in the world.
Apr 18, 2016 · This rich and timely book gives voice to emigrants, slaves, convicts and other human cargo from the 18th and 19th centuries. Its striking mix of story and folk song sets these past voices beside testimony from today - so shedding new light on a defining disaster of our time.
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Apr 18, 2016 · This rich and timely book gives voice to emigrants, slaves, convicts and other human cargo from the 18th and 19th centuries. Its striking mix of story and folk song sets these past voices beside testimony from today - so shedding new light on a defining disaster of our time.
