Description: Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad.
Brief description: MISCHA HONECK is an assistant professor at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
Review Quotes:
Extraordinarily well researched . . . Honeck argues persuasively that these Forty-Eighters drew upon Enlightenment ideology to champion equality and racial reform by challenging privilege and hierarchy in the United States, just as they had tried unsuccessfully to do in Europe.
--John David Smith "Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte"