Abolitionizing Missouri: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America

by Kristen Layne Anderson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807161969
• ISBN13: 9780807161968
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"