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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Norton, Sydney |
| Title, Analytic | German Immigrant Abolitionists: Fighting for a Free Missouri |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2016 |
| Volume ID | 51 |
| Location in Work | 83-107, ill. |
| View Online | https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v51i |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | Discusses 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. |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 104-107). |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Missouri/ Slavery/ Abolitionists/ Newspapers/ Forty-eighters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans/ Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |