An Unexpected Alliance
An Unexpected Alliance
August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the Abolitionist Movement in Cincinnati
This chapter offers a fresh perspective on the German-speaking refugees of 1848 during the run-up to the Civil War by analyzing their relationship to America’s abolitionists. More specifically, it looks at the companionship of two radicals, the German-born socialist August Willich and the black educator Peter H. Clark, in the immigrant stronghold of antebellum Cincinnati. The chapter considers how the two men and their adherents joined forces in hopes of eliminating slavery, and their quest for emancipation in different, sometimes conflicting ways. It also examines Willich’s support of abolition and opposition to racism and Clark’s embrace of the causes of the “oppressed Hungarians and German socialists in their fight against despotism.”
Keywords: refugees, America, abolitionists, August Willich, Peter H. Clark, Cincinnati, slavery, emancipation, abolition, racism
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