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200 1. $a Abolitionizing Missouri $b Texte imprimé $e German immigrants and racial ideology in nineteenth-century America $f Kristen Layne Anderson
214 .0 $a Baton Rouge $c Louisiana State University Press
214 .4 $d C [2016]
215 .. $a 1 vol. (viii, 278 pages) $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index
330 .. $a Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for
emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri,
however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the
first exploration of the impact that the Civil War and emancipation had on German
immigrants' ideas about race. Anderson focuses on the relationships between German
immigrants and African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri, looking specifically at the
ways in which German attitudes toward African Americans and the institution of slavery
changed over time. Anderson suggests that although some German Americans deserved
their reputation for racial egalitarianism, many others opposed slavery only when
it served their own interests to do so. When slavery did not seem to affect their
lives, they ignored it; once it began to threaten the stability of the country or
their ability to secure land, they opposed it. After slavery ended, most German immigrants
accepted the American racial hierarchy enough to enjoy its benefits and had little
interest in helping tear it down, particularly when doing so angered their native-born
white neighbors. Anderson's work counters prevailing interpretations in immigration
and ethnic history, where, until recently, scholars largely accepted that German immigrants
were solidly antislavery. Instead, she uncovers a spectrum of Germans' "antislavery"
positions and explores the array of individual motives driving such diverse responses.
In the end, Anderson demonstrates that Missouri Germans were more willing to undermine
the racial hierarchy by questioning slavery than were most white Missourians, although
after emancipation, many of them showed little interest in continuing to demolish
the hierarchy that benefited them by fighting for black rights
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