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Author Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Title We are the revolutionists : German-speaking immigrants & American abolitionists after 1848 / Mischa Honeck
Published Athens, Ga. ; London : University of Georgia Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Contents Entanglement is certain : 1848 and the challenge to American slavery -- A firm phalanx of iron souls : free men on Texas soil -- The only freedom-loving people of this city : exiles and emanicpators in Cincinnati -- Why continue to be the humble maid? : a transnational abolitionist sisterhood -- Let us break every yoke : Boston's radical democracies -- A revolution half accomplished : building nations, forgetting emancipation
Summary Annotation Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of the role of exiled European revolutionaries in the abolitionist movement by probing their relationship with America's abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-230) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject German Americans -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
German Americans
Immigrants
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1848-1849 -- Influence
Subject Germany
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820339603
0820339601
0820338001
9780820338002