Voyagers to the West Study Guide

In Voyagers to the West, Bernard Bailyn examines the dramatic increase in immigration to the American colonies from Britain in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He focuses on who the immigrants were, where they came from, why they were immigrating, and where they went to in the colonies. His main data sources is an emigration register kept by British customs officials during this time, and he supplements that information with data from newspapers, town records, personal manuscript collections, and so on. (read more)