Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island

by Patrick T. Conley and William J. Jennings Jr.

Book Overview

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 nine of these individuals elected to settle in Rhode Island after landing in Providence, amounting to around eleven thousand new residents. Most of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626192294
• ISBN13: 9781626192294
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"