Max Kade Institute Lecture
The American Civil War and the German Empire in the Red and Black Atlantic
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Time
7 p.m.
Location
TITU, Union South
Description
With Germany as the focal point, Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University,
examines a Civil War-era Atlantic world crisscrossed by exiled German revolutionaries and workers, and Americans, both enslaved and free, black and white. The result is an intersecting world of German “red” republicans, democratic free-labor communities, transnational fugitive slaves, defeated Confederates, utopian socialist and communist experiments, and post-slavery economies in America, Europe, and West Africa.
examines a Civil War-era Atlantic world crisscrossed by exiled German revolutionaries and workers, and Americans, both enslaved and free, black and white. The result is an intersecting world of German “red” republicans, democratic free-labor communities, transnational fugitive slaves, defeated Confederates, utopian socialist and communist experiments, and post-slavery economies in America, Europe, and West Africa.
Cost
Free
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