Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence : Immigration to Rhode Island

Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence : Immigration to Rhode Island

William J. Jennings, Patrick T. Conley

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781625847058

In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in