The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers

Augustus F. Sherman

Women were well represented among Afro-Caribbean immigrants. In the first decade of the immigration, they were in the minority, but as time went by their numbers equaled and surpassed those of the men. Tens of thousands of seamstresses and dressmakers, clerks, housewives, and domestics filled the ranks of the immigrants. More women settled in the Northeast than in Florida.