Abolitionizing Missouri by Kristen Layne Anderson

Author:Kristen Layne Anderson [Anderson, Kristen Layne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Slavery, History, United States, State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV)
ISBN: 9780807161975
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Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2016-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

The year 1865 saw the ending of both the war and slavery in Missouri. Slavery ended first, when the newly elected state constitutional convention passed an ordinance of immediate emancipation on January 11. Many people in Missouri, white and black, immigrant and native born, had worked to make it a reality. This change was not welcomed by all, however, including some Germans. Faced with the pressures of nativism and the changing racial profile of the city, some Germans sought to protect their own status at the expense of that of African Americans, denigrating blacks’ capacity for freedom as a way of differentiating themselves from their more radical counterparts. The German radicals continued to support emancipation and African American rights throughout the war, despite the antagonism it earned them. The Union had been restored, but the German population remained divided.

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