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Independent Immigrants - A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Hardcover)
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Independent Immigrants - A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Hardcover)
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Between 1838 and the early 1890s, German peasant farmers from the
Kingdom of Hanover made their way to Lafayette County, Missouri, to
form a new community centered on the town of Concordia. Their story
has much to tell us about the American immigrant experience - and
about how newcomers were caught up in the violence that swept
through their adoptive home. Robert Frizzell grew up near
Concordia, and in this first book-length history of the German
settlement, he chronicles its life and times during those formative
years. Founded by Hanoverian Friedrich Dierking - known as
""Dierking the Comforter"" for the aid he gave his countrymen - the
Concordia settlement blossomed from 72 households in 1850 to 375
over the course of twenty years. Frizzell traces that growth as he
examines the success of early agricultural efforts, but he also
tells how the community strayed from the cultural path set by its
freethinker founder to become a center of religious conservatism.
Drawing on archival material from both sides of the Atlantic,
Frizzell offers a compelling account for scholars and general
readers alike, showing how Concordia differed from other German
immigrant communities in America. He also explores the conditions
in Hanover - particularly the village of Esperke, from which many
of the settlers hailed - that caused people to leave, shedding new
light on theological, political, and economic circumstances in both
the Old World and the New. When the Civil War came, the antislavery
Hanoverians found themselves in the Missouri county with the
greatest number of slaves, and the Germans supported the Union
while most of their neighbors sympathized with Confederate
guerrillas. Frizzell tells how the notorious ""Bloody Bill""
Anderson attacked the community three times, committing atrocities
as gruesome as any recorded in the state - then how the community
flourished after the war and even bought out the farmsteads of
former slaveholders. Frizzell's account challenges many historians'
assumptions about German motives for immigration and includes
portraits of families and individuals that show the high price in
toil and blood required to meet the challenges of making a home in
a new land. Independent Immigrants reveals the untold story of
these newcomers as it reveals a little-known aspect of the Civil
War in Missouri.
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