Affiliation:
1. the University of Turku
Abstract
After the Napoleonic Wars Finnish ship owners increasingly contributed to
global trade by selling their tonnage capacity internationally. In spite of its
peripheral position as a Grand Duchy within Imperial Russia (since 1809),
Finland played an important part in the traffic of the high seas during
the late age of sail, largely due to the ready availability of labour. In this
chapter, I study how long-distance trade affected sailors’ families in Pori
on Finland’s west coast between 1830 and 1860. I show how boundaries of
biological kinship were crossed in housing arrangements families made to
ensure social and economic security, and how the community supported
and dealt with these families.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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