A True Picture of Emigration by Rebecca Burlend

To the white settlers, the first look at the Illinois prairies was full of wonder. To the Indians on the other side of the moving frontier, of course, the new land was an old land to them, it was not a frontier gradually opening the boundaries of freedom but a steadily encroaching line of defeat and displacement. Thousands of settlers either turned their wagons straight west from Pennsylvania or poled their flatboats down the Ohio to swarm into the new land. THE LINE of the frontier moved steadily westward across America throughout the 18th and 19th centuries as inexorably, it seemed, as the path of the sun itself, and in the first quarter of the 19th century it marched slowly across the prairies of Illinois. Line print reproduction from the Chicago Historical Society. This drawing of Morris Birkbeck, who wrote about Illinois in his Notes on a Journey in America published in 1817, is from the frontispiece of George Flower's History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois (1882). The authors are bound by no restrictions regarding form, style or perspective, and they are encouraged to use any of a number of approaches, including exposition, analysis, satire and parody. This is the first in Illinois Issues' current series of essays designed to explore literary, historical and cultural issues of interest to people in the state. With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture.This fourth series of humanities essays is made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, in cooperation with the Illinois General Assembly and the Illinois Department of Conservation.

It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin food, clothes, and furniture of the period early churches and schools the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America.

It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. You can read this before A True Picture of Emigration PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.

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