Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

184 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative sad slow-paced
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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again....

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