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Radical Relationships - The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke (Hardcover)
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Radical Relationships - The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke (Hardcover)
Series: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series
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This collection of intimate letters reveals the remarkable
radicalism-personal and political-of Mathilde Franziska Anneke.
Anneke first became a well-known feminist and democrat in Prussia,
earning notoriety for divorcing her first husband and fighting in
the German Revolutions of 1848-1849. After moving to the United
States, she became a noted proponent of woman suffrage, working
with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Like many other
refugees of the German revolutions, Anneke was deeply involved in
the Civil War. Radical Relationships focuses on the years
1859-1865, which encompassed not only the war but also Anneke's
intense romantic friendship with Yankee abolitionist Mary Booth.
Over the course of seven years, Anneke supported Mary through her
husband's trial for rape. When Sherman Booth was later imprisoned
for his abolitionist activity, Anneke conspired to spring him from
jail. The two women then moved with three of their children to
Zurich, Switzerland, where they collaborated on antislavery fiction
and mixed with leading European radicals such as Ferdinand
Lassalle. From Europe, they followed the fate of German-born
soldiers in the Union army, including Anneke's husband, Fritz, and
his court martial. Throughout her career, Anneke's intimate
relationships informed her politics and sustained her activism. Her
correspondence with Fritz and Mary Booth provides fresh
perspectives on the transnational dimensions of the Civil War and
gender and sexuality.
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