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Trade in Strangers

Name: Trade in Strangers
Author: Marianne S. Wokeck
ISBN: 9780271018331

by Wokeck, Marianne S.

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Overview

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.

About the Author, Marianne S. Wokeck

Marianne S. Wokeck is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. She was previously Associate Editor of The Papers of William Penn and director of the Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators.

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Tells the story of fundamental changes in the process of populating America in the 1700s, showing how first the German system of immigration developed, and then how Irish immigration altered to adopt the same pattern, focusing especially on the Delaware Valley. Looks at how the sea transportation industry took shape in the middle decades of the 18th century to service and profit from migration flows from various European territories. Includes an appendix of German immigrant voyages, 1683-1775. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)