ePub History of the Underground Railroad: In Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania by R. C. Smedley in History

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In 1700; some 250;000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies; with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776; the non-Native American population had increased tenfold; and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups; the Germans may have been the largest.Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources; many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany; Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German immigration to colonial America; the European context of the Germans' emigration; and the importance of networks to their success in America