The Resource Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass, Maria Diedrich
Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass, Maria Diedrich
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- Summary
- "In 1856 Ottilie Assing, an intrepid journalist who had left Germany after the failed revolution of 1848, traveled to Rochester, New York, to interview Frederick Douglass for a German newspaper. This encounter transformed the lives of both: they became intimate friends, they stayed together for twenty-eight years, and she translated his autobiography into German. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their shared intellectual and cultural interests and how they worked together on his abolitionist writings." "As is clear from letters and diaries, Douglass was enchanted with his vivacious companion but believed that any liaison with a white woman would be fatal to his political mission. Assing was keenly aware of his dilemma but certain he would marry her once his mission was fulfilled. She was bitterly disappointed: after his wife's death, Douglass did remarry - but he married another woman. Assing committed suicide, leaving her estate to Douglass."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxix, 480 pages
- Contents
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- 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 è mobile? Years of suspense
- Hagar's shadow: separation and suicide
- Concluding remarks: aequanimitas
- Notes
- Bibliography --Illustration credits
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780809016136
- Label
- Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass
- Title
- Love across color lines
- Title remainder
- Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass
- Statement of responsibility
- Maria Diedrich
- Subject
-
- Journalists -- United States -- Biography
- African Americans -- Relations with Germans | History -- 19th century
- History
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Friends and associates
- United States -- Race relations
- Biographies
- Assing, Ottilie
- African American abolitionists -- Biography
- Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In 1856 Ottilie Assing, an intrepid journalist who had left Germany after the failed revolution of 1848, traveled to Rochester, New York, to interview Frederick Douglass for a German newspaper. This encounter transformed the lives of both: they became intimate friends, they stayed together for twenty-eight years, and she translated his autobiography into German. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their shared intellectual and cultural interests and how they worked together on his abolitionist writings." "As is clear from letters and diaries, Douglass was enchanted with his vivacious companion but believed that any liaison with a white woman would be fatal to his political mission. Assing was keenly aware of his dilemma but certain he would marry her once his mission was fulfilled. She was bitterly disappointed: after his wife's death, Douglass did remarry - but he married another woman. Assing committed suicide, leaving her estate to Douglass."--Jacket
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Diedrich, Maria
- Dewey number
-
- 973.8/092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E449
- LC item number
- .D57 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American abolitionists
- Journalists
- Women journalists
- African Americans
- Abolitionists
- Douglass, Frederick
- Assing, Ottilie
- United States
- Label
- Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass, Maria Diedrich
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-463) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 è mobile? Years of suspense -- Hagar's shadow: separation and suicide -- Concluding remarks: aequanimitas -- Notes -- Bibliography --Illustration credits -- Index
- Control code
- 39229703
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxix, 480 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809016136
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 98025224
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass, Maria Diedrich
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-463) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 è mobile? Years of suspense -- Hagar's shadow: separation and suicide -- Concluding remarks: aequanimitas -- Notes -- Bibliography --Illustration credits -- Index
- Control code
- 39229703
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xxix, 480 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809016136
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 98025224
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
Subject
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
- African American abolitionists -- Biography
- African Americans -- Relations with Germans | History -- 19th century
- Assing, Ottilie
- Biographies
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Friends and associates
- History
- Journalists -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations
- Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
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