Title
- New Directions In German American Studies ; Vol. 1
Attribution
edited, translated, and introduced by Christoph LohmannPublication Details
BookP. Lang1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E449 .A8 2000 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
View record in LOLA catalogSubject
- Assing, Ottilie
- Douglass, Frederick, — 1818-1895 — Friends and associates — Biography
- Assing, Ottilie — Correspondence
- Douglass, Frederick, — 1818-1895 — Correspondence
- Abolitionists — United States — Biography
- Women abolitionists — United States — Biography
- Women social reformers — United States — Biography
- German American women — Biography
- Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century — Sources
- African Americans — Relations with Germans — History — 19th century — Sources
Notes
- "Radical Passion examines eighty essays and reports on the United States (1852-1865) by the German-American journalist Ottilie Assing (1819-1884) along with twenty- seven extant letters from Assing to Frederick Douglass during the years 1870-1879. A keen and critical observer of the American scene before and during the Civil War, Assing was passionately commited to her personal freedom and to political and social equality for African Americans. For almost three decades, she and Frederick Douglass were close intellectual collaborators and lovers. The reports and essays, originally written in German, are presented in their first English translation; an introduction provides biographical background and historical context."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Reports and Essays, 1852-1865
- 1. From Hamburg to New York
- 2. Schenectady - Barnum - Curiosities - Life in a Republic - Mrs. Trollope
- 3. The Tombs - The Washington Exhibition - Minstrels
- 4. From New York to Schenectady - The Shakers
- 5. A Small Western Town
- 6. Winter Portrait of a Small Western Town
- 7. From West to East - - 8. An Antislavery Meeting
- 9. An Excursion to Sing Sing
- 10. Rambles Through New York
- 11. Colored People in New York
- 12. American Types: Women - Irish - Blacks - Chinese - Indians - Gypsies
- 13. Preface to the German Translation of My Bondage and My Freedom
- 14. The Presidential Election and Slavery
- 15. The Election - Art and Industry Exposition - Women’s Rights
- 16. Kansas and the Extension of Slavery
- 17. Wendell Phillips - A "Gift Enterprise"
- 18. Hoboken
- 19. Meeting of the Antislavery Societies: Frederick Douglass
- 20. The Money Crisis - Antislavery Movements
- 21. A Negro Colony in Canada
- 22. The Mayoral Election - A Fugitive Slave
- 23. The Kansas Controversy - Lola Montez - Public Lectures
- 24. Revivals - Women’s Rights - Female Dress Reform - Women and Work
- 25. Feeding the Poor - Penny Boardinghouses - Emigration Ships
- 26. Opera - Musard’s Orchestra - A Rogues’ Gallery - Barnum
- 27. Kansas - Anniversaries
- 28. An Excommunication - Slavery and the Germans
- 29. Malcontents - Indians - James Monroe - A Marylander Without Slaves
- 30. A Captured Slave Ship - Retreat of Reverend Brownlow
- 31. Revivals and Spiritualism
- 32. State and Congressional Election - Slavery
- 33. New Efforts to Colonize the Negroes
- 34. Democrats Congratulated
- 35. Cuba - Public Lectures - Mount Vernon - Buying a Slave’s Freedom
- 36. A Fashionable Preacher
- 37. Anniversaries
- 38. Slave Trade - Hatred of America
- 39. A Visit with Gerrit Smith
- 40. Frederick Douglass
- 41. The Insurrection at Harpers Ferry
- 42. The Aftermath of John Brown’s Trial - - 43. John Brown’s Execution and Its Consequences
- 44. Literary War of the North Against the South - The Octoroon
- 45. Lecturers - Painting - The Cooper Institute
- 46. Mormonism - Preparations for the Presidential Election
- 47. Presidential Candidates - Anniversaries - Humboldt’s Letters
- 48. Election Prospects - Southern Fear - A Convention of Infidels
- 49. The Presidential Election - Republicans and Democrats
- 50. Developments in the Southern Part of the Union
- 51. The Public Crisis
- 52. Outbreak of Hostilities - Martial Spirit
- 53. The War
- 54. War - Douglas’s Death - Missouri Germans - A Black Hero - Barnum
- 55. Civil War - Fremont and the Government - A Rogues’ Gallery
- 56. War - Slavery - The Charleston Fire - An Important Document
- 57. Slavery and Government - Women and Slavery - Soldiers - Supplies
- 58. Drastic Change - Southern Knighthood - Executing a Slave Trader
- 59. The War - The Slavery Question - Color Prejudice
- 60. General Hunter and the Government - Blacks - The Homestead Bill
- 61. The Emancipation of Slaves
- 62. Consequences of War - Congressional Elections - McClellan
- 63. New Defeats - Corruption - Religious Conditions
- 64. Emancipation Proclamation - Conditions in Mississippi
- 65. Humbug - Psychology - Dwarves - Behavior of Negroes in the South
- 66. American Conditions - Mob Rule
- 67. Colored Troops - Cost Increases - Luxury - Worker Unrest - Bloomerism
- 68. Anniversary of the Anti - Slavery Society
- 69. Effects of War on Social Conditions and on Slavery
- 70. A Negro Regiment - Radical Germans
- 71. The Presidential Election
- 72. The Presidential Election
- 73. Christmas and New Year’s - Slavery - Everett - A New German Book
- 74. The Constitutional Abolition of Slavery
- 75. A Public Celebration - Corruption
- 76. Thrills of Victory and Depths of Mourning
- 77. The Trial - A Funeral Procession - Reconstruction
- 78. Lincoln’s Assassins - Jefferson Davis - Emancipation
- 79. Presidential Policies - Persecution of Negroes - Embittered Southerners
- 80. Victorious South - Half- and Whole-hearted - Black Literary Institute
- App. Letters to Frederick Douglass, 1870-1879
ISBN
- 0820445266
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