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Title Fighting for a free Missouri : German immigrants, African Americans, and the issue of slavery / editor by Sydney J. Norton
Published Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 300 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Summary ""Fighting for a Free Missouri" features ten essays by scholars of German and American Studies, African American history, and sociology, that present contrasting perspectives on the political motives of Missouri German immigrants who fought against slavery before and during the Civil War. The diverse perspectives in this book attest to the complexity of German immigrants' place in the American political and social landscape, and makes evident the central and positive role that German political activism has played in the material lives of people of color and the establishment of democratic values in Missouri and the country at large"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2023)
Subject German Americans -- Missouri -- Political activity -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
German Americans -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
German Americans.
Military participation -- German American.
SUBJECT Missouri -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, German American
Subject Missouri.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Norton, Sydney, editor.
LC no. 2023017139
ISBN 9780826274939
0826274935