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Paperback Halfway to America: The Tragic Sinking of the William Nelson Book

ISBN: 1667828398

ISBN13: 9781667828398

Halfway to America: The Tragic Sinking of the William Nelson

"Halfway to America" describes the plight of emigrants who sailed to America in the 1860s, usually in the steerage deck - where the conditions were cramped, lacked privacy, and had only the bare necessities. This book follows Heinrich Dirkes and his son Johannes from the time they leave their village in Bauler, Bitburg-Pr m, Prussia. While traveling from Antwerp, Belgium, to New York in 1865, the ship William Nelson caught fire when buckets of hot...

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