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British Emigration to North America; projects and opinions in the early Victorian period.

by
Wilbur Stanley Shepperson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                              ix
PREFACE                                                        xi
CHAP.
I.  INTRODUCTION.                                                 1
    The Emigration Tradition.                                     1
    Emigration's Growing Appeal                                   4
    Political Advent of Emigration                               11

PART I
THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT

II. AGRICULTURISTS: CORE OF THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT              25
    The Farmer                                                   28
    The Welsh Agriculturists                                     32
    The Gentry                                                   36
    The Farm Labourer                                            39
    Promotion of Emigration by Agents for North Ameri-
     can Lands                                                   49
    Opposition to Agrarian Emigration.                           64
    Summation.                                                   67

III. LABOUR : EMIGRATION A PALLIATIVE FOR PROBLEMS               76
    Private Emigration                                           80
    American-Promoted Group Projects                             86
    Trade Union Emigration                                       93
    Communal Emigration Projects                                 99
    Opposition and Alternatives to Labour Emigration            104
    Summation                                                   108

IV. HUMANITARIANS AND RELIGIONS: EXCURSIONS INTO
EMIGRATION                                                      115
    The Emigration of Children                                  116
    The Emigration of Vagabonds and Women                       122
    Emigration by Pietistic Groups                              127
    Religious Emigration                                        129
    Mormon Emigration                                           135
    Summation                                                   141

PART II
THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT AS A PUBLIC ISSUE

V. BUSINESS: EMIGRATION A PANACEA OR PANDORA                    151
    Emigration as a Profitable Enterprise                       152
    Emigration and North American Railroads                     161
    Texas and the Emigration Business                           167
    Business Opposition to Emigration                           177
    Summation                                                   184

VI. GOVERNMENT: A POLICY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, LETHARGY,
AND Laissez-Faire                                               192
    Popular Demand for Assisted Emigration                      194
    Home and Colonial Emigration Policy to Mid-1846             201
    Home and Colonial Emigration Policy after Mid-1846          211
    Foreign and Territorial Emigration Policy to Mid-1846       218
    Foreign and Territorial Emigration Policy after Mid-
     1846                                                       227
    Summation                                                   232

VII. EMIGRATION: PRACTICE AND THEORY                            242
    Emigration as a Practical Movement                          243
    Emigration as a Theoretical Issue                           246
    An Evaluation                                               247

APPENDIX					  	        252                                                             
BIBLIOGRAPHY 						267                                                           
INDEX   						        295                                             		                                                          

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE
I. Emigrants Sailing from the United Kingdom, 1815-60           257
2. English Sailing from United Kingdom Ports                    260
3. Scots Sailing from United Kingdom Ports                      261
4. Occupations of Emigrants Sailing from the United King-
   dom in 1856                                                  262
5. Statutes at Large Relating to British Emigration, 1800-60    266

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