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Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diedrich, Maria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1999.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Friends and associates.
Assing, Ottilie.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
United States > Race relations.
African Americans > Relations with Germans > History > 19th century.
Abolitionisme.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Douglass, Frederick.
Assing, Ottilia.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Abolitionists.
African American abolitionists.
African Americans > Relations with Germans.
Friendship.
Journalists.
Race relations.
Women journalists.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Biography.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A mount calvary of joy: Ottilie Assings' childhood an youth
  • If only I were a bird: vagrant years
  • Pilgrim-fool: American beginnings
  • Irresistible attractiveness and distinction: appropriating Frederick Douglass
  • The I and the other: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses
  • Of Emerald Islands and Magic Gardens: the Antebellum years
  • The iron arm of the black man: the Civil War years
  • A delightful time, admirably spent: the Reconstruction years
  • La donna รจ mobile? Years of suspense
  • Hagar's shadow: separation and suicide
  • Concluding remarks: aequanimitas
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration credits
  • Index.