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Radical Passion: Ottilie Assing's Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass

Radical Passion: Ottilie Assing's Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass

Lohmann, Christoph
Sollors, Werner

Paperback

Series: New Directions in German-American Studies, Book 1

Biographies GeneralWriting Instruction19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0820445266
ISBN13: 9780820445267
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Jan 11 2000
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Radical Passion examines eighty essays and reports on the United States (1852-1865) by the German-American journalist Ottilie Assing (1819-1884) along with twenty-seven extant letters from Assing to Frederick Douglass during the years 1870-1879. A keen and critical observer of the American scene before and during the Civil War, Assing was passionately committed to her personal freedom and to political and social equality for African Americans. She believed in radical social movements, backed the German Revolution of 1848, and became an enthusiastic supporter of radical abolitionism, women's emancipation, and civil rights for black Americans. For almost three decades, she and Frederick Douglass were close intellectual collaborators and lovers. The reports and essays, originally written in German, are presented in their first English translation; an introduction provides biographical background and historical context.

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