Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that studies the increase of immigration in American colonies up to the time of the American Revolution. Bailyn shows that the British government was concerned about the number of people leaving the British Isles and going to America. The British government decided to gather information from the immigrants that would tell who and why they were leaving. They discovered that there were two main groups leaving the British Isles: indentured servants and families from northern England and Scotland. This work provides a detailed insight to some of the emigrants who settled in North American colonies.
Bernard Bailyn has strongly influenced the study of early American history with his powerful monographs ranging in subject from seventeenth-century New England merchants to the origins of the American...
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