TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Joanna
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Why we left: untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants 
SN  - 9780816684069
AV  - JV6451 .B76 2013
U1  - 305.9/06912097309032 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Folk music
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - British Americans
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : brave men run -- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left -- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation -- Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture -- To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude -- Seduction of the house carpenter's wife: abandonment and the story of colonial -- Migration -- Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816684069/
ER  -