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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793912603321

Autore

Garrison Zachary Stuart <1985->

Titolo

German Americans on the middle border : from antislavery to reconciliation, 1830-1877 / / Zachary Stuart Garrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-8093-3756-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

973.0431

Soggetti

German Americans - Politics and government - 19th century

Antislavery movements - Missouri - History - 19th century

German Americans - Missouri - History - 19th century

United States Politics and government 1857-1861

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1865-1877

Middle West Race relations History 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, German American

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Middle West

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Missouri

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Im Abendlande -- Building a Neuen Deutschland: the Dreissiger Immigration and the origins of German liberalism in the border West -- The politicization of German liberals: the Revolution of 1848 and the second wave of German immigration to the border West -- "I was an enthusiastic democrat in those days": free soil, free labor, and the realignment of German liberals in the border West, 1852-1856 -- Antislavery Germans and the Election of 1860 -- The West's most loyal unionists: union, emancipation, and German soldiers' motivations in the border west -- Rebel bushwhackers and the "damned Dutch": radical Germans and the deeper roots of Missouri's guerrilla war -- The radical turn: abolition and the crisis of German liberalism in the border West -- "A terrible mistake was made": the retreat of German liberalism



in the border West.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book assesses the impact of German immigrant liberal ideology on the "Middle Border," the region suddenly bisected by slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century and physically separated by the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys."