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 Author: Coleman, Terry
Title: Going to America
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New. Illus. . 317 pp
Publisher: Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1998
ISBN Number: 0806311894 / 9780806311890
Our Product Number: RMH093
This is the grim story of the British and Irish immigrants who came to America during the middle of the 19th century. Confronting the immigrants at every turn were inescapable horrors. Ship owners packed their holds like slavers; brokers misrepresented and overcharged; runners stole when they couldn't cheat; customs officials took bribes to ignore over-crowding. And when the immigrants arrived they were fleeced by lodging-house keepers, separated from their possessions, and sold fraudulent railroad or canal boat tickets -- in short, the whole, cruel aparatus of immigration was turned against them.
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