
Published online:
22 September 2022
Published in print:
31 May 2022
Online ISBN:
9780300265033
Print ISBN:
9780300226867
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Different Empires, Different Settlement Policies Different Empires, Different Settlement Policies
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Encouraging Immigration and Doing Nothing to Discourage It Encouraging Immigration and Doing Nothing to Discourage It
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The Native Peoples of North America and the Immigrants Who Met Them The Native Peoples of North America and the Immigrants Who Met Them
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The Importance of Place: The Northern Colonies The Importance of Place: The Northern Colonies
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The Mid-Atlantic The Mid-Atlantic
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Immigrants to the Southern Colonies Immigrants to the Southern Colonies
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Cities and the Backcountry Cities and the Backcountry
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Labor and Immigration: From Free to Bonded Labor and Immigration: From Free to Bonded
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Colonial Immigration and Global Politics Colonial Immigration and Global Politics
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Religion and Immigration Religion and Immigration
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Xenophobia in British North America Xenophobia in British North America
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Further Reading Further Reading
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Chapter
One Founding Immigrants: Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century America
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13–38
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Published:May 2022
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Bon Tempo, Carl J., and Hasia R. Diner, 'Founding Immigrants: Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century America', Immigration: An American History (New Haven, CT , 2022; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300226867.003.0002, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
Immigration from the British Isles as well as from parts of the German speaking lands laid the basis for the white population of North America. The connection between place of origin and religion mattered much as immigrants decided where to settle and when but economic possibilities drew men and women to the colonies. Many came in some form of indentured servitude, considering it economically advantageous, despite hardship and abuses, to enter into a contract with an employer in America or to a ship captain who would bring them across the Atlantic.
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