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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Hopkins, Leroy T. |
| Title, Analytic | The Germantown Protest: Origins of Abolitionism among the German Residents of Southeastern Pennsylvania |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1988 |
| Volume ID | 23 |
| Location in Work | 19-29 |
| Abstract | The historical relationship between Afro-Americans and Pennsylvania Germans is explored in this study. The focus is on the Germantown Protest, the first protest in the New World against the African slave trade. A "reception history" of the document is employed to shed some new light on its significance and its importance for German-Black relations after 1688, the year of its origin. The author posits that the Germantown Protest should be perceived as a pragmatic declaration of common sense doctrine to enable more consistent dealing with the many apparent contradictions in German-Afro-American interactions. While Germans were often slaveholders, not only in the South but in Pennsylvania, there was also German support for the abolition movement in its various stages. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania Germans/ Ethnic groups -- Other groups/ Ethnic relations/ Slavery |