German Americans on the Middle Border
Subtitle: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830-1877
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780809337552
Subjects: Antislavery movements; German americans; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865; United states, politics and government, 1815-1861; United states, politics and government, 1865-1933
Description: "This book assesses the impact of German immigrant liberal ideology on the "Middle Border," the region suddenly bisected by slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century and physically separated by the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys."