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The seventeenth volume of Norwegian-American Essays is published in the commemorative year marking the bicentennial anniversary and commemoration of the first organized and direct emigration from Norway to North America... In July of 1825 a crew and passengers of fifty-two individuals left Stavanger harbor on the sloop Restauration destined for the United States… The voyage of the Sloopers in 1825 was a prelude to an organized mass emigration from Norway in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All told, about 900.000 emigrants left Norway between 1825 and about 1980… The bicentennial commemoration … includes actors and events in the United States, Canada, and Norway. The main objectives of Crossings 200 in Norway are, firstly, to raise awareness of Norwegian emigration, particularly to North America. A second objective is to use knowledge of past emigration to better understand contemporary immigration processes and integration into Norwegian society. The third objective is to foste