EAN: 9780820445267

RADICAL PASSION - CHRISTOPH LOHMANN KARTONIERT ...

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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