Fighting for a Free Missouri
German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery
Sydney J. Norton
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Fighting for a Free Missouri
German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery
Sydney J. Norton
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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.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword. German Immigrants, Slavery, and Race: Reflections on the Missouri Experience
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Missouri German Abolitionists: An Introduction
- Chapter 2. A History of African Americans in Missouri and the Resonance of German Antislavery Activism
- Chapter 3. Friedrich Muench, Missouri, and Slavery
- Chapter 4. Voices against Slavery: The Editors of Hermann’s Newspapers
- Chapter 5. Arnold Krekel: A Republican for Immigrant Rights and Racial Equality
- Chapter 6. Henry Boernstein and the Abolition of Slavery: A Wild Ride
- Chapter 7. Nationalism, Political Activism, and Abolitionism in Missouri Turner Societies
- Chapter 8. The Missouri Forty-Eighters and Friedrich Hecker
- Chapter 9. Evolving toward Abolition: German Attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave and Kansas-Nebraska Acts
- Chapter 10. German Abolitionists’ Story Inspires Reconciliation and Builds Community in Missouri
- Contributors
- Index