Telling details illuminate the vastness of the immigrant experience. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh. Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American. Cannato describes an 1896 editorial cartoon that shows the xenophobia that faced new arrivalsa crude sketch of a sickly immigrant carrying baggage marked Poverty, Disease, Superstition and Anarchy. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Vincent J. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil.Īmerican Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all played an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. The remarkable saga of America's landmark port of entry, from immigration post to deportation center to mythical icon.įor most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide.
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. "By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato's American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation." - Walter Isaacson American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.
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