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(0)Kristen Layne Anderson
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...