Migrant Quarantines
According to the excerpt, it becomes very clear that of all the groups of people that were coming into America, were a primary source of illnesses in the country. This portrays Blacks as a race that is so much affected by diseases. Additionally, it portrays blacks as a race that should be isolated from the other races as it is categorized as a lesser race than the rest. This is evident from the fact that "they isolated themselves by settling next to rivers in America such as Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana" (Casserly, 1870). Despite separating themselves from the other races, it is very clear that they earned their living by depending on natural resources such as rivers to make their day to day life. A question arises from their choice of settling next to streams, whose answer can only be that they relied on the river for fishing, or they depended on it for crop growth and cultivation of land as well. Though the race is characterized by being affected by diseases, it appears that the contest may be aware that they suffered from some of the problems articulated here, and this is because they did not want to mingle with other races to curb the spread of their illnesses.
The Chinese in California
The second topic shows that out of the majority of the immigrants into California, a slight percentage composed the Chinese whose primary intention of migrating to America was due to the extraction of the minerals in the productive part of America. It also shows that their intentions for migration and their means of entering that part of America were through legal means as the government noted their presence and passed laws that would limit the loss of levies to foreigners. "The Chinese knew very well that California was rich in Gold and had known the area very well to the extent of drawing their map of the coastline of the region"( Bowles, 1866) which shows that Chinese are explorative and opportunistic as well.
References
Bowles, Samuel. A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866.
Casserly, Eugene. Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region, on July 8, 1870, to the Senate, Washington DC.
