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There was also a mass exodus from the country at that time, not only people starving to death
gpt
The mass exodus was a product of British taxation from what I remember. The Lords were to be taxed based on population, from what I remember, and most of them found it was cheaper to pay to send people to the USA and Canada then to pay the tax on them.