Perhaps I go to the mill treasurer and get an advance of money. Perhaps I have the money myself. ! 1 return to Syria or I send some trusted agent. very likely a Syrian resident of the United States. In Syria a number of emigrants are gathered together. and they come to America. and either by direct or indirect route. finally arrive at my boarding house in the city of Lowell. I tell them that if they do not pay me back the money advanced I will have them arrested . that they must hand over the full wages that they get in the mill on penalty of imprisonment. Everyone knows how easy it is for a stranger to break the laws or the ordinances in a land where he does not understand the language. and they are held in terror of the police. "Meanwhile I take all their wages while I feed them and keep them alive just as I would feed and keep a horse alive that I had imported for use in a livery stable." In the textile trades of Great Britain 1.171.216 persons are employed.
Identified stereotypes
Syrian immigrants are easily exploited and forced into debt bondage.