An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century--why they left, what they found, and how th

Recounts how a young slave girl in revolutionary Boston became a renowned poet and first African American to publish a book.

Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis

Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.