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    IN DEFENSE OF SLAVERY: DILEMMA OF A GERMAN-AMERICAN CONFEDERATE IN ANTEBELLUM TEXAS

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    O'Lear, Kristin
    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.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8825
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     Adelsverein; Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung 
    Date
    2020-11-19
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    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.)

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    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. September 27, 2023.
    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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