Moore's 'Lowest Depth of Misery' (1824)
- Item sets
- Diaspora
- Name
- Moore's 'Lowest Depth of Misery' (1824)
- Description
- The historian A.W. Moore fixed 1824 as the date at which the Manx labourer reached his lowest depth of misery. The 1827 emigration ships sailed three years later. The timing was not coincidental. The people who packed their chests and walked behind the carts laden with luggage from the north of the island to the harbour at Douglas were leaving at the worst possible moment — which was also the only moment when leaving became easier to face than staying.
- Date
- 1824
- Period
- Emigration and Diaspora
- Type
- Historical Assessment
- Source
- Moore, History of the Isle of Man