Category: 34. German Radicals vs. the Slave Power

Let’s ditch the marble statues of generals on horseback for a minute and drop down to street level—St. Louis, 1860s, where immigrant dockworkers, bar-backs, typesetters, and seamstresses did a lot of the heavy lifting in the fight against slavery. A 70-year-old German exile named Henry Boernstein—think of him as a… Read more“34. German Radicals vs. the Slave Power: A Grassroots Rebellion”