03109nam 2200529 450 991079391260332120200416085853.00-8093-3756-8(CKB)4100000010473789(MiAaPQ)EBC6120957(EXLCZ)99410000001047378920200416d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGerman Americans on the middle border from antislavery to reconciliation, 1830-1877 /Zachary Stuart GarrisonCarbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (233 pages)0-8093-3755-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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."--Provided by publisher.German AmericansPolitics and government19th centuryAntislavery movementsMissouriHistory19th centuryGerman AmericansMissouriHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1857-1861United StatesPolitics and government1861-1865United StatesPolitics and government1865-1877Middle WestRace relationsHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Participation, German AmericanUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Middle WestUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865MissouriGerman AmericansPolitics and governmentAntislavery movementsHistoryGerman AmericansHistory973.0431Garrison Zachary Stuart1985-1498913MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793912603321German Americans on the middle border3724623UNINA