The people of New York in the 1860’s were racial and did not mix well with other ethnics. 18 minutes into the movie, Natives were malicious to the upcoming immigrants and would throw objects as well as insult them once they came off the ship. The main character Vallon mentioned how even though he was 2 hours from where he landed, the people treated them all the same. 1:12:00 into the movie, William Cutting said as the people left the ships, “I see no Americans, I see trespassers.” Within an hour into the movie, it seemed that regardless of age, people would still be racist, since in a not so subtle scene, an officer raised his police stick at what seemed to be a passing ‘colored’ child who was playing with other small children Cutting, a
