Trade in strangers : the beginnings of mass migration to North America / Marianne Wokeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wokeck, Marianne Sophia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

History.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

Germany.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xxx, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport.

Contents:

Introduction: A New Form of Transatlantic Migration xix

1 German Long-Distance Migration 1

2 The Flow and Composition of German Immigration to the American Colonies 37

3 The Trade in Migrants 59

4 The Ordeal of Relocation 113

5 Irish Immigration to the Delaware Valley 167

Conclusion: A Model for the Modern Era 221

Appendix German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271018321

0271018348

OCLC:

39478136