‘Sultry on the Doorstep’

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Pulp fiction cover art by Barye Phillips, 1950’s

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Muslim BENGALI Indian co-habitated in HARLEM

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“In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home in Bengali villages. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners most sought their labor and anti-Asian Bengali immigration laws closed in around them, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest.