Flesh and Blood so Cheap tells the grueling yet inspiring struggle of how immigrants, mainly women, strived to prosper in the foreign land of America. The immigrants faced the animosity of the Tzars, the inhuman demands of capitalist factory owners, the corrupted justice system, and the fire that ended many of the immigrant’s lives, yet still managed to fight back the oppressors and strive in the America, the land of opportunities.

These first two pages focused on the central ideas that reoccur throughout the book as I read it. One of the pages detail the main reason so many immigrants left their homeland for America, while the second focused on the main challenge the immigrants faced during their stay in America, capitalism.

This page further explores the causes of immigration, mainly the strict religious quotas instated in Russia for the Jewish. Through further exploration on the topic of anti-semitism in the Russian Empire, the evidence I found further strengthens the central idea that many immigrants had to leave their homeland because of religious quotas.

This last page connects all the main and minor central ideas that appear throughout the book and ties them together in a synthesis page that follows the chronological order of how the immigrants encountered these issues.

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