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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Anderson, Kristen Layne (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Abolitionizing Missouri [Texte imprimé] : German immigrants and racial ideology in nineteenth-century America / Kristen Layne Anderson
Publication : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, copyright [2016]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 278 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection : Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Lien à la collection : Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine allemande -- Missouri (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Missouri (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Relations interethniques -- Missouri (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Abolitionnistes -- Missouri (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807161968. - ISBN 0807161969. - ISBN 9780807161982 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807161975
(erroné). - ISBN 9780807161999 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46885746s
Notice n° :
FRBNF46885746
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Slavery must persist among us for many years yet: slavery and German immigrants, 1848-1854
; Abolitionizing Kansas and Missouri: German attitudes toward slavery, 1854-1860
; At the point of Dutchmen's bayonets: the early years of the Civil War ; Für einheit
und freiheit: the politics of emancipation ; The perfect equalization of Blacks and
Whites: the transition to freedom ; Equal justice to all, without regard to color:
the debate over Black suffrage.
