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=Historian Seminar= September 17, 2009 - [|McGlynn Middle School, Medford]

**Immigrant “Hands” and America’s Canals, Mills, and Railroads**
Patricia A. Reeve, Ph.D., Department of History Suffolk University


 * Readings**
 * Berlin and Gutman “Natives and Immigrants, Free Men, and Slaves: Urban Workingmen in the Antebellum American South” The American Historical Review v. 88, n. 5 (1983): 1175 – 1200
 * Cohn “The Occupations of English Immigrants to the United States, 1836 0 1853” The Journal of Economic History v. 52, n. 2 (1992): 377 – 387

**Electronic Prompt(s)**

 * 1) According to Ira Berlin and Herbert Gutman, immigrant workingmen occupied a unique role in Southern society during the pre-Civil War years (or, antebellum period, as it is also known).
 * 2) Why was their role unique and how did workingmen’s presence in Southern society complicate existing race relations?

**Resources**

 * Download Powerpoint handout PDF with notes (4.31MB)([[file:ReeveFallSeminar91709.pdf]]

> //History of Immigration to the United States > Exhibiting the Number, sex, age, occupation and country of birth, > or passengers arriving in the United States by Sea from Foreign Countries > from September 30, 1819, TO December 31, 1855.// > Compiled by William J. Bromwell, of the Department of State
 * Additional Primary Source:
 * [[file:history_of_immigration_to_the_us.pdf]] [[image:history-of-us-immigration.gif caption="History of Immigration to the US"]](7.82 MB)