Answer:
German American lives were hard and uncomfortable. they worked in the undesirable jobs and worked for minimum wage. most lived in the tenements or overcrowded apartments with poor ventilation and almost no plumbing.
False.
I learned this last year in school. I remember this lesson.
Solomon Northup was an outsider. He had grown up as a "free" black man. He had never experienced anything like that. He was accustomed to an entirely different existence.