دانلود کتاب Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence. Immigration to Rhode Island

In anera when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the onlytransatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports wasin Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants wereadmitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in nine ofthese individuals elected to settle in Rhode Island after landing in Providence,amounting to around eleven thousand new residents. Most of these immigrantswere from Portugal and Italy, and the Fabre Line kept up a brisk and successfulbusiness. However, both the line and the families hoping for a new life facedmajor obstacles in the form of World War I, the immigration restriction laws ofthe 1920s, and the Great Depression. Join authors Patrick T. Conley and WilliamJ. Jennings Jr. as they chronicle the history of the Fabre Line and its role inbringing new residents to the Ocean State.