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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Assing, Ottilie |
| Title, Monographic | Radical passion: Ottilie Assing's reports from America and letters to Frederick Douglass |
| Author/Subsidiary, or Performer | Lohmann, Christoph |
| Author Role 2 or Performer/Director | Editor and Translator |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | P. Lang |
| Date of Publication | 1999 |
| Extent of Work | 378 |
| Series Editor | Sollors, Werner |
| Series Title | New Directions in German-American Studies |
| Series Vol. ID | Vol. 1 |
| ISBN | 0820445266 |
| Abstract | Includes 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 Number | MKI E449 A8 1999 |
| MKI Terms | Women authors/ Journalism/ Letters/ Slavery/ German Americans/ Social conditions |