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Who Came To America By Elizabeth Ashbridge
Elizabeth Ashbridge is a an English settler that wanted to come to America because her father and mother didn’t want her to come back home. The reason behind this is because she was courted by a man who fell in love with her and soon got married to him. Since the first death of her husband her father refused to let her back into the family, and she decided to go to America. During her trip to America, she had to sign a paper for permission in order to become a servant on the ship. Later when she was living in america, remarried to her second husband named Sullivan Ashbridge, who is abusive towards her.
Within Ashbridge’s story, she struggled to look for her own identity throughout her journaling. She was experiencing hardships of living with
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