Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The Friends' Migration ( Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture) The Cavaliers and Indentured Servants ( Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture) The Exodus of the English Puritans ( Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture) ![]() The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book: ![]() Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture." Four folkways The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the political culture of the modern United States. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain ( Albion) to the United States. ![]()
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