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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Honeck, Mischa |
| Title, Analytic | In Pursuit of 'Freedom': African-, Anglo-, and German-American Alliances in the Abolition Movement |
| Journal Title | Bulletin of the German Historical Institute |
| Date of Publication | Spring 2006 |
| Issue ID | 38 |
| Location in Work | 99-117 |
| ISSN | 1048-9134 |
| Abstract | From the concluding paragraph: "The abolitionist intellectuals I deal with in this project established networks, small-scale deliberative democracies, in which they opened up channels of critical exchange and deliberated about their common affairs. Opposition to slavery was one, if not the constituting element of these networks. But it was equally a point of departure for men and women who discovered that, with regard to their egalitarian visions, they were only part of a great concert. In this sense, conversations about slavery and abolition between the three subgroups I have outlined were at the same time conversations about the chances and limits of democracy in an international, multicultural setting. So as these three groups, African-American intellectuals, Anglo-American abolitionists, and German-American Forty-Eighter revolutionaries, were pursuing "freedom," each according to their own political and cultural understanding, they learned how and to what extent their definitions of freedom and democracy diverged from each other. They added another dimension that is still fairly unknown to Abraham Lincoln's famous observation that liberty had become a universal slogan; 'But in using the same word,' he went on, 'we do not all mean the same thing.'" |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Slavery/ United States -- History/ History/ German Americans/ Forty-eighters |