Paupers! So says this friend f the British ambassador. this visitor to the British Embassy. He further said: Some Immigrants to Virginia were. to some extent. a shiftless and degraded set of creatures from slums and jails of English seaport towns. Virginia. in whose Jamestown settlement was set the foundation of Americai democracy. representative government. manhood suffrage. trial by jury. while Massachusetts was making the experiment of a theocracy which did not work. He further said: The men who have made some parts of the South a dark and bloody ground. where to this day the only law known is the law of the rifle and the knife. where dense ignorance prevails and superstition holds sway. are the legacy of this colonial era and its social system.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about immigrants from English seaport towns being a shiftless and degraded set of creatures from slums and jails.