Contents   Home "Barbadosed" About the Project Making Connections Shared Heritage Featured Document Source Documents Search Website Resources   Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition    Welcome to Tangled Roots 6. During the Irish Famine (1845-1851), Quakers provided relief to the suffering and training for new industries. For Further Study See: Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Introduction (Transactions of the... of the Society of Friends...) Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Chapter V (Transactions of the... of the Society of Friends...) Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Chapter I (Excerpt from theTransactions of the Central Relief Committee...) Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, From the Irish Relief Committee, Richmond, Virginia Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Minute...respecting affording assistance to fishermen Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Report from James Alcock...respecting the present state of the fishermen... Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Irish Relief Committee, Brooklyn, New York (Excerpt) Return to Getting Started