| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan.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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Immigrants -- Michigan -- History -- 19th century
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Immigrants -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century
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Oral history -- Michigan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Immigrants
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Oral history
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| SUBJECT |
Michigan -- History -- 19th century
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Michigan -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Michigan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bloomfield, Martha Aladjem.
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| LC no. |
2010003504 |
| ISBN |
1609172027 |
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9781609172022 |
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9781628961447 |
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1628961449 |
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