Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Immigrants Sold at Dock. [ARTICLE]

Immigrants Sold at Dock.

It is pointed out by the London Chronicle that although the modern Immigrant to American ports may be “sold” in a way, he is never sold in the same, sense as were those immigrants of the eighteenth century whose fate one gathers from an advertisement in a New York paper of 1774. The advertisement runs: “Servants just arrived from Scotland, to be sold on board the Commerce, Capt. Ferguson, master, lying at the ferry stairs, among which are a number of weavers, tailors, blacksmiths, nailers, shoemakers, butchers, hatters and spinsters, 14 to 35 years of age. For terms apply to Henry White or said master on board.”