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Author Batchelor, Donald.

Title Becoming Americans / by Donald Batchelor.

Publication Info. Raleigh, N.C. : Boson Books, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 74 pages) : maps
Note Print version record.
Summary The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchant's factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that the purchase of these laborers and their landrights would establish them as wealthy planters in the New World. Governor Berkeley of Virginia called them all "a wild beast multitude." Only a small fraction of the whole survived their journey and a year in America. The seasoned survivors persisted, prayed, and multiplied. For millions of Americans, today, they are the source of distant family connections.
Subject Immigrants -- Virginia -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- North Carolina -- Fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Ships -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Historical.
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Ships. (OCoLC)fst01116439
North Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204304
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction.
Other Form: Print version: Batchelor, Donald. Becoming Americans. Raleigh, N.C. : Boson Books, 1996 1886420254
ISBN 1886420254 (electronic bk.)
9781886420250 (electronic bk.)
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