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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Baron, Frank |
| Title, Analytic | German Republicans and Radicals in the Struggle for a Slave-Free Kansas: Charles F. Kob and August Bondi |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2005 |
| Volume ID | 40 |
| Issue ID | 3-26 |
| Location in Work | 1-26 |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | Upon arrival in the United States, leading German revolutionaries, defeated and exiled in their fight for greater freedoms in 1848 and 1849, discovered a conflict with comparable implications. In the early 1850s these immigrants confronted a rapidly transforming political landscape. . . . The opening of the Kansas Territories to a vote on slavery in 1854, seen in the North as a blatant violation of the Missouri compromise of 1820, became a direct cause for the realignment of the existing party system. . . . The German revolutionaries quickly embraced the challenge and opportunity to revive their frustrated idealism. The fight for freedom in Europe became the struggle against slavery and slavery's extension. Charles F. Kob and August Bondi were not prominent political figures, but through their associations and actions they demonstrate how the exiled Forty-eighters" contributed to the new political conditions in their adopted country." |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters/ Bondi, August, 1833-1907 |