C H A P T E R 1 3 : R I Z A L’ S V I S I T

T O T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S
April 28,1888- Rizal first saw America.

Racial prejudice – discrimination treatment of the

Chinese and the Negroes by white Americans
San Francisco to New York , where he took a ship
for England.
A R R I VA L I N S A N F R A N C I S C O

April 28,1888

Belgic (steamer)

 Cholera epidemic (Far East)

Discovered that the placing of the ship under

quarantine was motivated y politics
643 Chinese coolies
 RIZAL IN SAN FRANCISCO

Palace Hotel
• Which was then considered a first class hotel in the city.

Leland Stanford
• Millionaire senator representing California in the U.S
Senate at that time

Dupont Street
• Chinatown to Grant Avenue

May 4 to 6, 1888
• Grover Cleveland- President of U.S at that time
ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT

May 6,1888 at 4:30 P.M

• Rizal left for San Francisco to Oakland by ferry boat
• Supper at Sacramento for 75

May 7, 1888
• Breakfast at Reno, Nevada
• American high- pressure propaganda
• “the biggest little city in the world”
 RIZAL IN NEW YORK

May 13,1888
• Reached New York (ending his trip across the American
Continent)
• Rizal called the city as “big town”
• Awed and inspired by the memorial to George Washington
• “ He is a great man who, I think, has no
equal in this country.

May 16,1888
• Left New York for Liverpool on the board the City of Rome
• The second largest ship in the world, the largest
being the Great Eastern
• State of Liberty on Bedloe Island
R I Z A L’ S I M P R E S S I O N O F A M E R I C A

Good impression
• 1. the material progress of the country as shown in
the great cities, huge frams, flourishing industries,
and busy factories,.
• 2. the drive and energy of the American people
• 3. the natural beauty of land
• 4. the high standard of living
• The opportunities for better life offered to poor
immigrants
Bad Impression
• Lack of racial equality

“they do not have true civil liberty. In some states the

Negro cannot marry a White woman, nor a White man
a Negress. Haterd against the Chinese leads to
difficulty for other Asiatics who, like the Japanese, are
mistaken for Chinese by the ignorant, anf therefore
being disliked, too”
- Jose to Ponce
2 years after (1890)
• “America is the land par excellence of freedom but
only for the whites’