| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. By Ruth Wallis Herndon. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xvi, 243 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8122-3592-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8122-1765-9.)

Analyzing the warning out system as it functioned in fourteen of Rhode Island's twentyseven towns between 1751 and 1800, Ruth Wallis Herndon strives to "take us inside the lives of the eighteenth-century poor" so we can "put a human face on poverty" and "hear the voices of the poor." During the period, the fourteen town councils issued 1,924 warning out orders and conducted 772 examinations of transients. Forty miniature biographies, culled from three hundred that Herndon constructed, form the core of the book. These individual narratives are grouped into chapters on "Birth, Infancy, and Childhood," "Family Life," "Work Life," "Reversal of Fortune," and "Old Age and Death." . . .

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