Download or read book Italians of Sunnyside written by Elizabeth "Libby" Olivi Borgognoni and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery did not end when the Blacks were freed. Beginning in 1895, one hundred Italian families were lured to work at the prominent Sunnyside Cotton Plantation in Lake Village, Arkansas. Rather than the promised land of milk and honey, they found they had been thrust into a horrific environment. Federal investigators would later say these conditions were so appalling that, "even the Negro slaves would have refused to endure them." Sunnyside, a premier plantation, was devastated by the Civil War. In financial duress, Sunnyside was acquired by a shrewd, New York financier. This businessman masterminded a scheme to replace the Black labor force with Italian immigrants. The plan ultimately deceived thousands of Italian families to immigrate to America, who thought their purpose was to create a colony described as a "Golden City." After this initial group, thousands of Italians followed from 1895 - 1923, and became the principal labor force for most plantations and farmlands in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. The history of Sunnyside unfurls a drama between the most powerful people and institutions in the world with a seemingly hapless and naive group of Italian colonists. This struggle involved the Pope, bishops, a complex womanizing priest, the President, a Senator, a tenacious investigator who used her feminine craftiness to uncover the atrocities, and the Italian immigrants who resiliently survived and prospered. These unsuspecting Italians did not find the paradise that was promised, but an excruciating experience that some described as worse than slavery. The labor conditions and trials were so intolerable that the outcry finally reached the commander in chief, President Theodore Roosevelt. This unfolded into a multiyear investigation between a clever female special investigator and a powerful U.S Senator, who was not only the Sunnyside Plantation manager, but also a hunting pal of President Roosevelt. This riveting, true story of Italian American history will be revealed in the following pages. This Italian colony at Sunnyside was the catalyst event that brought a large wave of Italians to America. More than one million Italian Americans today can trace their origins back to this initial Italian colonization event.

Download or read book Italians of Sunnyside 1895 1995 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shadows Over Sunnyside written by Jeannie M. Whayne and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection of essays addresses social, historical, cultural, and labor issues as they affect a Southern plantation. The heart of the book is an examination of a "great experiment" to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction, and of a minority culture's introduction into the Delta.

Download or read book Italian Immigration to Arkansas written by Cheryl Baker and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Other Side Growing up Italian in America written by Vincent Panella and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American experience: its cloying love, intense frugality, obsession with security, and its strong sense of family cohesion. He writes of his boyhood in Queens, New York, his father's efforts to shape his life, and of the fact that “to be a member of an Italian family is never to be simply yourself.” The Other Side is also Vincent Panella’s personal journey, from rejection of his family to a realization that he cannot escape or deny his origins. This final recognition emerges after an extended visit to Italy, where he comes to know those in his family who remained behind. Thus Vincent Panella has written a book of journeys: a family’s journey from southern Italy to Hell’s Kitchen and the New York suburbs, a young man’s journey to a sense of identity. The story is given an added dimension by the author’s wife, Susan Sichel: Through her own photographs, and through her selection of photographs from family albums, Ms. Sichel further evokes the life and times of three generations of an immigrant family.

Download or read book Everyone Thought America was the Place to Come written by Amy Rose Scott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sweet Hope written by Mary Bucci Bush and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Hope is a novel about the friendship between two families, one Black and one Italian, living and working together on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation 1901-1906. Italians were illegally imported to the South under false pretenses and held in a contract labor system designed to put and keep them in debt while the few remaining African American sharecroppers taught the Italians to work cotton, speak English, and survive. A vicious manager/ overseer, an absentee plantation owner, a rape, an interracial "Romeo and Juliet" love affair, a murder, and hints of a Federal investigation complicate the characters' lives as they learn bitter truths about race and friendship in America. The novel was inspired by the childhood experiences of Bush's grandmother and her family who were unwitting participants in the "Italian Colony Experiment."

Download or read book The Italians Social Backgrounds of an American Group written by Eugene Bucchioni and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lost Plantations of the South written by Marc R. Matrana and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.

Download or read book The Italians in America written by Philip Marshman Rose and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sons of Italy written by Antonio Mangano and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Italian Emigration of Our Times written by Robert Franz Foerster and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1919 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social and Religious Life of Italians in America written by Enrico C. Sartorio and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Partners in Gatekeeping written by Lauren Braun-Strumfels and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Italians of San Joaquin County written by Pacific Italian Alliance and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italians were among the first European settlers in California, as fishermen from Italy arrived in the 1830s. After gold was discovered in 1848, immigrants from all over the world came for the opportunity that California presented. For the Italians, they encountered a terrain and climate so similar to their homeland that many stayed on to make California their new home. In San Joaquin County, the Italian influence remains profound, with the immigrants and their descendants helping develop the areas cultural, agricultural, and business climate into what it is today. The legacy of the Italian pioneers has enriched San Joaquin County in immeasurable ways. Every aspect of life here has been touched, molded, and made better by this industrious group who came to a distant land to make a better life.

Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journey of the Italians in America written by Scarpaci, Vincenza and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Italians in American cuisine, industry, sports, entertainment, and language is profound. Using photographs to illustrate more than a century of Italian experiences in the United States, the author provides an intimate and informed glimpse into the history of prejudice, hardship, celebration, and success faced by this rich Mediterranean people. A celebration of common men and women alongside notable Italian American celebrities and public figures, this book is a cultural photo album.--From publisher description.