People who fled a (*) disaster caused by lack of this food item travelled in "coffin ships."
To promote this food item, Antoine Parmentier would post guards around his garden, then instruct the guards to accept any bribes from peasants and allow them to be stolen. Following European contact, the Maori replaced their kumara plants with these food items. The American colonies first received these food items in a shipment from Nathaniel Butler, the Governor of Bermuda. People who fled a (*) disaster caused by lack of this food item travelled in "coffin ships." A famine caused by a blight on this food item was alleviated after Robert Peel repealed the "Corn Laws." For 10 points, name this food item that was responsible for a great famine during the 1840s in Ireland.
To promote this food item, Antoine Parmentier would post guards around his garden, then instruct the guards to accept any bribes from peasants and allow them to be stolen.
potatoes