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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticNorton, Sydney
Title, AnalyticGerman Immigrant Abolitionists: Fighting for a Free Missouri
Journal TitleYearbook of German-American Studies
Date of Publication2016
Volume ID51
Location in Work83-107, ill.
View Onlinehttps://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v51i
ISSN0741-2827
AbstractDiscusses the origins of German immigrant abolitionism; the progressive newspapers of Hermann, Missouri (a center for antislavery activity in the state), particularly Carl Strehly and Eduard Muehl's Hermanner Wochenblatt; Arnold Krekel ("emancipator, educator, and self-made man"); growth, social volatility, and political unrest in antebellum St. Louis; Henry and Augustus Boernstein, radical German journalists in St. Louis; the German immigrant as soldier: Franz Sigel, Peter Osterhaus, and the Turners; and Missouri Germans and Reconstruction.
NotesIncludes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 104-107).
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsGerman Americans -- Missouri/ Slavery/ Abolitionists/ Newspapers/ Forty-eighters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans/ Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)