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2 - Exodus

from Part I - Settlers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2022

Anders Bo Rasmussen
Affiliation:
University of Southern Denmark
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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 Settlers
Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870
, pp. 31 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Exodus
  • Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
  • Book: Civil War Settlers
  • Online publication: 07 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108980135.003
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  • Exodus
  • Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
  • Book: Civil War Settlers
  • Online publication: 07 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108980135.003
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  • Exodus
  • Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
  • Book: Civil War Settlers
  • Online publication: 07 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108980135.003
Available formats
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