Emigrant Sebastian Fritz's letter to his family

When Sebastian Fritz wrote to his relatives from New York in September 1854, he had completed an arduous journey across the Atlantic. After 47 days at sea, nausea, bad food and spoiled water, but also inspired by never seen before things like whales, sea snakes and icebergs, Fritz had arrived in the emigration country number one at the time, the United States of America. We do not know which reasons drove him from his homeland, presumably Hesse. But they were serious enough to take on this dangerous passage. After all, it could have cost him his life, as he notes: "We had six bodies on the ship."