Stories of the history, culture, and life in the communities of French speakers in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
The French of New Bedford: The Early Years
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Description
The French of New Bedford: The Early Years provides the most comprehensive account of New Bedford’s Franco-American communities, focusing on their history from the 1600s to the mid-1930s. This book explores their early beginnings, growth, and eventual decline, caused by new immigration restrictions, the Great Textile Strike of 1928, and the onset of the Great Depression. Far from the simple extended family/parish/neighborhood ethnic narrative of other New England cities, this book reveals a far more intricate history of New Bedford’s French.
