Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery by Norton, Sydney J.

Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery

Missouri is well-known for its German American heritage, but the story of nineteenth-century German immigrant abolitionists is...
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Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery by Norton, Sydney J.

Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery

Dhs. 488.40

Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery

Dhs. 488.40
Author: Sydney J. Norton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Missouri is well-known for its German American heritage, but the story of nineteenth-century German immigrant abolitionists is often neglected in discussions of the state's history. This collection of ten original essays (with a foreword by renowned Missouri historian Gary Kremer), relates what unfolded when idealistic Germans, many of whom were highly educated and devoted to the ideals of freedom and democracy, left their homeland and settled in a pre-Civil War slave state. Fleeing political persecution during the 1830s and 1840s, immigrants such as Friedrich Münch, Eduard Mühl, Heinrich Boernstein, and Arnold Krekel arrived in the area now known as the Missouri German Heritage Corridor in hopes of finding a land more congenial to their democratic ideals. When they witnessed the state of enslaved Blacks, many of them became abolitionist activists and fervent supporters of Abraham Lincoln and the Union in the emerging Civil War. Editor Sydney Norton and the other contributing authors to Fighting for a Free Missouri explore the Germans' abolitionist mission, their relationships with African Americans, and their activity in the radical wing of the Republican Party.



Author: Sydney J. Norton
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 10/20/2023
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780826222923


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About the Author
Sydney J. Norton is an independent scholar, translator, and educator in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her doctorate in German literature and cultural studies from the University of Minnesota. Her publications include books and articles on contemporary German art and literature, Weimar-era performing and visual arts, and the German abolitionist movement in the United States.


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