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British Immigration to the United States, 1776-1914, Volume 4
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This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.
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INDEX
abolition, 2.xii–xiv
Beecher and, 2.xii
Donaldson family and, 1.128–9
immigrants and, 1.xlii, 3.xix
Quakers and, 1.185
Stowe on, 4.187, 192–9
see also African-Americans; slavery
abolitionists, British, address to women of America, 4.191–2
Adams, John Quincy, 1.44
Addams, Jane, anti-imperialism, 4.xxiv
‘Affectionate and Christian Address of … Women of Great Britain and Ireland’, 4.191–2
African-Americans
bad conditions, Philadelphia, Crosfield on, 2.396
‘Colored Regiments’, 4.xi, 17, 187, 199–203
immigrants and, 4.xi
Oscar Kimberly on, 4.17
Stowe’s portrayal, 4.187
Union and, Claussen on, 4.46, 49, 52, 53, 57
see also abolition; slavery
agricultural distress, and emigration, Tickle on, 4.298
agricultural economics, changes in, 4.xv–xvi
agricultural workers, as immigrants, 2.xviii
see also farmers; farming
agriculture see farming
Albany Billiard Ball Company, Kinnear and, 2.216
Alberta, Johnston on, 2.159
Albion Illinois settlement, 1.xliv, 21, 22–3, 25, 38
John Ingle and, 1.16
Alderson, Jonathan, 2.xiv
alien registration, 1.xxxvii–xxxviii, xxxix
Allen, John, 3.209–10
almshouse, Philadelphia, Crosfield on, 2.394
alpaca mills, Broadhead and, 2.188
America and England Contrasted: or, The Emigrant’s Hand-Book, 2.271, 273–343
American Agency, employment prospects misrepresented, 4.268–9
American character, Waller on, 2.233
American expansionism, 2.xv–xvi
American Miner’s Association, 4.xxii
American Tract Society, Hill and, 4.1–4
Americanization, Trattles on, 3.160
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Baldwin and, 4.146
Cotton and, 4.140
Henry and, 4.136
Andersonville Prison, 4.xi–xii
Anglicans, and abolitionism, 2.xiv
Anglo-American imperialism, 4.xxii–xxv
Anglophobia, 4.xii–xiii
Annett, Philip, on Upper Canada, 2.259–60
anthracite mining, Jones and, 2.195
anti-slavery legislation, Stowe on, 4.197–9, 203–4
Anti-Slavery Societies, 2.xiii, xiv
apprenticeships, America and England Contrasted on, 2.297–9
Arkwright, Richard, 1.xlv
Arminians see Bible Christians
Armstrong, Revd Robert, 1.94–8
artificial stone manufacture, Allen and, 3.209
artisans
as imm...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Correspondence
- Biographies
- Other Materials
- Editorial Notes
- Index