Immigrant Wealth,
1883, [At Internet Archive, from Letters Magazine]
Letter from an Englishman after moving to South America, 1883. Not a US immigrant, but
these "letters home" were a major creator of emigration pressures.
WEB Interpreting The Irish
Famine, 1846-1850 [At Internet Archive, from Virginia]
A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the
Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [At Virginia]
Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work --
from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
Mark Twain [pseud of Samuel Clemens](1835-1910): The Gentle, Inoffensive
Chinese, 1871, from Roughing It, Volume II, Chapter XIII. [At Schaffer Drug
Library]
Chinatown
Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library]
This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a
Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for
the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
California: Anti-Coolie
Act, 1862 [At Drug Library]
"An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor,
and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26,
1862"
Albert S. Evans: A
Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the
Golden State, c, 1871.
John W. Foster: The
Chinese Boycott, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This
behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.
Francis A. Walker: Restriction of
Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1896 [At Fairfield]
Warnings about "vast inpourings of southern European immigrants"
Robert DeCourcey Ward: Immigration and
the South, The Atlantic Monthly, November1905 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Against the North's "unloading of second-rate immigrants by sending them South."
William Z. Ripley: Races
in the United States, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1908 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
The "problem" of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Oriental races upon the character of
the nation.
Don D. Lescohier: Immigration and
the Labor Supply, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1905 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Immigrants would undermine the improved labor standards that American workers were
struggling to establish.
Randolph S. Bourne, Transnational
America, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1916, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
On the failure of the "Melting Pot".
Back to IndexNOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception
was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.