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A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
Children's fiction
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
219 pages · First published 2000
Thirteen-year-old Anetka Kaminska leaves Poland in 1896 after her father arranges for her to marry a coal miner in Pennsylvania. Her diary follows the difficult transition from village life to an industrial community where immigrant families depend on dangerous mine work. Labor conflict and the Lattimer Massacre place Anetka’s personal future within a documented history of exploitation and violence. Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Dear America novel combines a fictional immigrant girl’s story with Pennsylvania coal-mining history, examining work, marriage, ethnicity, and the high price families paid for the promise of American opportunity.
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