TY - GEN T1 - The sweetness of freedom : stories of immigrants T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Ostrander, Stephen Garr A2 - Bloomfield, Martha Aladjem LA - English PP - East Lansing, Mich. PB - Michigan State University Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn774285356 AB - The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others - refugees - fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of fre. OP - 392 CN - F566 .O78 2010eb SN - 1609172027 SN - 9781609172022 SN - 9781628961447 SN - 1628961449 SN - 9780870139772 SN - 0870139770 KW - Immigrants : Michigan : History : 19th century. KW - Immigrants : Michigan : History : 20th century. KW - Oral history : Michigan. KW - Michigan : History : 19th century. KW - Michigan : History : 20th century. KW - Histoire orale : Michigan. KW - Michigan : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Michigan : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General. KW - Immigrants KW - Oral history KW - Michigan KW - 1800-1999 KW - History ER -