2 - Exodus
from Part I - Settlers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2022
Summary
Visions of landownership in America were a key pull factor, associated with equality and social mobility, for Scandinavians who arrived in the United States with ideas of nonwhites shaped by scientific racism.
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- Civil War SettlersScandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870, pp. 31 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022