Skip to content

“Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century

Discussion of a primary source describing the experience of transatlantic migration in the late nineteenth century.

Bram Hubbell
Bram Hubbell
3 min read
“Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century

During the second half of the nineteenth century, steamships facilitated a significant increase in long-distance migrants. While we frequently discuss the push and pull factors that encouraged people to migrate, we do not often consider what this experience was like for the people on the ships.

The Source


Related Posts

Members Public

“They Have Deprived our People of Every Democratic Liberty”: 1945 and the End of Empire

Teaching the origins of decolonization in 1945

“They Have Deprived our People of Every Democratic Liberty”: 1945 and the End of Empire
Members Public

Serio-Comic Maps, Nationalism, and the First World War

Drawing nationalism in 1914

Serio-Comic Maps, Nationalism, and the First World War
Members Public

“ Sparks and Embers from the Raging Fires”: Experiencing Firebombing and Total War in Tokyo

Using survivor accounts to teach the firebombing of Tokyo

“ Sparks and Embers from the Raging Fires”: Experiencing Firebombing and Total War in Tokyo