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There were three basic categories of German19-century emigrants to the USA: the great majority whose passage was paid by themselves or by relatives, those who were subsidized by public funds, and convicts who had agreed to banishment to America as an alternative to serving out their terms. The latter group was by far the smallest, no more than 3000, but on both sides of the Atlantic they aroused far...
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