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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicAssing, Ottilie
Title, MonographicRadical passion: Ottilie Assing's reports from America and letters to Frederick Douglass
Author/Subsidiary, or PerformerLohmann, Christoph
Author Role 2 or Performer/DirectorEditor and Translator
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherP. Lang
Date of Publication1999
Extent of Work378
Series EditorSollors, Werner
Series TitleNew Directions in German-American Studies
Series Vol. IDVol. 1
ISBN0820445266
AbstractIncludes 80 essays and reports on the United States (1852-1865) by German-American journalist Ottilie Assing (in their first English translation) along with 27 letters (1870-1879) from Assing to Frederick Douglass, her intellectual collaborator and lover of 30 years. Assing was an advocate for abolitionism, women's emancipation, and civil rights for African Americans. The introduction provides biographical background and historical context.
Notes; book, in MadCat
Call NumberMKI E449 A8 1999
MKI TermsWomen authors/ Journalism/ Letters/ Slavery/ German Americans/ Social conditions