A "Choice" Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward
expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a
period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated,
discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the
young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship.
The arrival of German-speaking "Forty-Eighters," refugees of the
failed European revolutions of 1848-49, fueled apprehensions about
the nation's future. Reaching America did not end the foreign
revolutionaries' pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it.
In "We Are the Revolutionists," Mischa Honeck offers a fresh
appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship
to another group of beleaguered agitators: America's abolitionists.
Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the
long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities
like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them
find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by
massive migration and revolutionary unrest.
Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of
radical German emigres into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck
elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations
over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad.
Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use
not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to
redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a
transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.
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