How does this quotation add credibility to Freedman's line that the voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it?
Read Edward Corsi's quotation from the book
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.
Edward Corsi, who later became United States
Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old
Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor
in 1907:
My first impressions of the New World will always
remain etched in my memory, particularly that
hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis
Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of
Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of
Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in
our captain's memory, and glad we were both
children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea
and come at last through the Narrows into the
Bay
O It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi was a
professor who teaches American history.
O It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi was
the captain of the steamer Florida and weathered a
terrible storm.
It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi was a
reporter who tote about Ellis Island for a
newspaper
o It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi was
not only an immigrant himself but also a
Commissioner of Immigration.