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CHAPTER 13-Rizal's Visit To The United States

Rizal visited the United States in 1888, arriving in San Francisco on April 28th. While impressed by America's economic progress, he was disappointed by the racial discrimination and prejudice faced by Chinese and black Americans. After a week-long quarantine, Rizal spent two days in San Francisco and Oakland before taking a transcontinental train trip across the country, observing the landscapes and people of states like Nevada, Utah, Colorado and more. He spent three days in New York City visiting historic sites before concluding that America offered freedom only to white citizens, not true civil liberty for all.

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CHAPTER 13-Rizal's Visit To The United States

Rizal visited the United States in 1888, arriving in San Francisco on April 28th. While impressed by America's economic progress, he was disappointed by the racial discrimination and prejudice faced by Chinese and black Americans. After a week-long quarantine, Rizal spent two days in San Francisco and Oakland before taking a transcontinental train trip across the country, observing the landscapes and people of states like Nevada, Utah, Colorado and more. He spent three days in New York City visiting historic sites before concluding that America offered freedom only to white citizens, not true civil liberty for all.

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CHAPTER 13

Rizal’s Visit to the


United States 
(1888)
April 28, 1888
Rizal first
saw America.
His arrival in this great
country was marred by racial
prejudice, for he saw the
discriminatory treatment of
Chinese and Negroes by the
white Americans.
Arrival in
San Francisco
The Belgic
 This streamer, with Rizal on board,
docked at San Francisco on Saturday
morning, April 28, 1888.
2 agencies that certified Belgic is free
from cholera epidemic:
 The American consul of Japan
 The British Governor of Hong Kong
All passenger are not allowed to land
because the American health authority
placed the ship under quarantine on
the ground that it came from the Far
East where cholera epidemic was
alleged to be raging.
Rizal was surprised because there is
no out break of the disease in the Far
East, thus he joined other passengers in
protest.
The ship was carrying 643
Chinese Coolies

 They are unskilled oriental laborer.


 They were displacing white laborers
in railroad construction camp.
After a week of quarantine, all first
class passengers, including Rizal,
were permitted to land…but,
Chinese and Japanese
 Passengers of the second and
third-class accommodation
were forced to remain on
board for longer quarantine
period.
Rizal in
San Francisco
On Friday afternoon, May 4, 1888,
the day Rizal was permitted to go
ashore, he was registered at Palace
Hotel, which was considered as a
first-class hotel in the city ($4 a
day).
Market Street
 The best street in San
Francisco according to Rizal.
Leland Stanford
 A millionaire senator
representing California in the
U.S. Senate at that time.

 He was the founder and


benefactor of Stanford
University at Palo Alto,
California.
Rizal stayed in San Francisco
for Two days – May 4 to 6, 1888.

Grover Cleveland
 The president of the
United States at that time.
Across the American
Continent
From May 6, 1888 – Sunday,
4:30 P.M. to May 13, 1888 –
Sunday, at 11:10 A.M.
 May 6, 1888 (Sunday)
 Oakland – first stop via ferry
boat.
 He boarded the train for his trip
across the continent.
 Sacramento
- where he ate his supper 75
cents and slept at his coach.
May 7, 1888 (Monday)
 Reno, Nevada – “the Biggest
Little City”
- where he had his breakfast.

May 8, 1888 (Tuesday)


 Utah State
- where he saw Mormons,
thickly populated.
May 9, 1888 (Wednesday)
 Colorado
- a lot of snow, fine trees and many
horses.
May 10, 1888 (Thursday)
 Nebraska – Omaha City
- as big as San Francisco
 Missouri River
- twice as big as Pasig River
May 11, 1888 (Friday)
 Chicago
- a lot of Indians in cigar stores
May 12, 1888 (Saturday)
 English territory – Canada
- Niagara Falls – the cascade has
various falls, various parts.
May 13, 1888 (Sunday)
 Albany
- where he saw the Hudson River.
Rizal grand
transcontinental
trip ended on
Sunday May 13
at 11:10 am
Rizal in New
York
He stayed Three days in the City,
which he called the “the Big Town”.
He visited the scenic and historic
place.

He was awed and inspired by the


memorial to George Washington.
“ He is a great man who, I think, has no
equal in this country.”
Rizal’s
Impression
of America
Good Impression
 The material progress of the
country as shown in the great
cities, huge farms, flourishing
industries, and busy factories.
 The drive and the energy of
the American people.
 The natural beauty of the
land
 The high standard living.
 The opportunities for better
life offered to poor
immigrants
Bad Impression
 Non-existence of true civil liberty, as
Negro cannot marry an American
and vice versa.
 The existence of racial prejudice as
shown in their hatred of the
Chinese, Japanese and Negroes.
 The valuing of money over human
life.
 Lack of racial equality.
America for Rizal
“The land par excellence of
freedom but only for the
whites.”
- Rizal said this to Jose
Alejandro, an engineering
student from Belgium
Thank you !
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