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Seizing the Light, 4th Edition
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Seizing the Light, 4th Edition

by Robert Hirsch
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
30h 6m
English
Routledge
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Chapter Twelve Social Documents

An American Impulse: Social Uplift

Millions of European immigrants came to America in the nineteenth century looking for personal freedom and the opportunity to make a better life. Buffeted by a series of post-Civil War economic depressions, however, many were left jobless, hungry, and psychologically beaten down, barely existing in disease-plagued New York City tenements.1 Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914), who came penniless to New York from Denmark in 1870, suffered the degradations of spending nights in police lodging for the homeless, where he was robbed of his gold locket keepsake and had his dog clubbed to death. ...

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ISBN: 9781000904352