IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS
Author
O'Lear, Kristin
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Abstract
This thesis challenges previous historians’ characterizations of Ferdinand Lindheimer as simply the “Father of Texas Botany” and defender of freedom. Instead, Lindheimer acted out of his own self-interest to preserve his German-American ethnic identity, and by extension the community he helped to build. Only when Anglo-American political and social issues endangered his community in the 1850s, did Lindheimer actively engage in the Anglo-American political sphere. Lindheimer expressed minimal concern for those oppressed by the dominant culture. Lindheimer used his publication, the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, as a shield to protect himself and New Braunfels, the physical manifestation of this ethnic identity, from Anglo-American intrusion. In so doing, Lindheimer became the most visible German-American supporter of slavery, secession and the Confederacy in antebellum Texas.
Date
2020-11-19
Citation:
APA:
O'Lear, Kristin.
(November 2020).
IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS
(Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8825.)
MLA:
O'Lear, Kristin.
IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS.
Master's Thesis. East Carolina University,
November 2020. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8825.
January 15, 2021.
Chicago:
O'Lear, Kristin,
“IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS”
(Master's Thesis., East Carolina University,
November 2020).
AMA:
O'Lear, Kristin.
IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS
[Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
November 2020.
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East Carolina University