... ). The League, funded by donations from America, organized boycotts against notorious landlords, encouraged the defiant burning of leases, and had its members physically block evictions (VOG). As more Irish began emigrating to America, skilled propagandists such as John Mitchell inflamed the passions of downtrodden Irish Americans by summing up their famine experience, "The Almighty indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English ... ...

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