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Friedrich Hecker was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. This work draws from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St Louis Mercantile Library.

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As an immigrant leader in St. Louis and neighboring Illinois, Friedrich Hecker forged the bonds that tied the region's German community to the party of Abraham Lincoln and to the cause of emancipation that shaped modern America. - Louis S. Gerteis, author of Civil War St. Louis

Friedrich Hecker Two Lives for Liberty

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    A Hardback by Sabine Freitag, Steven Rowan, Steven Rowan

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      Publisher: Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
      Publication Date: 11/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780963980472, 978-0963980472
      ISBN10: 0963980475

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Friedrich Hecker was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. This work draws from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St Louis Mercantile Library.

      Trade Review
      As an immigrant leader in St. Louis and neighboring Illinois, Friedrich Hecker forged the bonds that tied the region's German community to the party of Abraham Lincoln and to the cause of emancipation that shaped modern America. - Louis S. Gerteis, author of Civil War St. Louis

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