Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Summary

Bailyn reconstructs the great wave of migration from Britain to America in the years just before the Revolution, drawing on detailed emigration registers to follow individual travelers and families. He maps where people came from, why they left, and how they scattered across the colonies in search of land and opportunity. The book combines vast quantitative research with vivid personal stories of those who crossed the Atlantic.