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The sweetness of freedom : stories of immigrants / Stephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem Bloomfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostrander, Stephen Garr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Michigan--History--19th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Michigan--History--20th century.
- Oral history--Michigan.
- Oral history.
- Michigan--History--19th century.
- Michigan.
- Michigan--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others - refugees - fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of fre
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I Have a Beautiful Country to Work From; Where the Streets Were Paved with Gold; America Was the Best Country to Live In; We Wanted to Be American; Immigration Didn't Solve All Our Problems; We Weren't Always Welcome in America; Anything That I've Set My Mind to, I Usually Accomplish; No Mexicans Allowed!; The Trip Became a GreatAdventure; The Promiseof a Better Future; We Didn't Know How Our Future Would Be; We Have to Make the Best of the Situation; From Korea with Love; Call Your Brother in Michigan
- We Belong to America Just as Much as America Belongs to UsI Never Believed I Would Stay in America; I Can Almost Taste the Sweetness of Freedom; Be Like the Bees-Make Plenty of Hives and Honey; Afterword
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-144-3
- 1-60917-202-7
- OCLC:
- 774285356
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