-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
1/26
H ur rah F rei Kansas!
Frei Kansas, freier Boden, Von Vorrecht frei und Bann!
Dem schwarzen und dem rothenSowie dem weissen Mann!
Free Kansas, free space,without privilege or discrimination!
For the black, and the red,as for the white man of the nation.
Abolitionist Song of Free State Kansas Germans(Many thanks for this to Prof. William Keel)
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
2/26
Charles ReitzProfessor (Ret.) of Phi losophy and
M ulticultural Education Kansas City Kansas Community Coll ege
L earning fr om Quindaro: I ndians, F eminists, Blacks, and
Germans,I ntercul tural Action for F reedom in the
Kansas F ree State Struggle,1856-63
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
3/26
Anti-Racism in Kansas Free State Struggle
Frederick Douglass (1852) asked inWhat to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?
Where are the white radicals
when it comes to anti-racism?You are all on fire at the mention of liberty for France or for Ireland, but are cold as an icebergat the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America.
Irish : Greeley, Lane, Montgomery, Jennison, Stewart, PhillipGermans: Bondi, Kaiser, Weiner, Leonhardt, Deitzler
Kossuths of Kanzas ( --Thomas H igginson, 1857)
By 1856: Abolitionists and RadicalsFeminists: Lucy Armstrong, Clarina Nichols
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
4/26
.Locus of multicultural
human rights movement:Native Americans, Blacks,Women, Irish , German 48ers
Quindaro, Kanzas, 1856-57Founded by coalition of anti-slave Wyandots and
Amos Lawrence's New England Emigrant Aid Society
Town Plan with Portrait of Quindaro Nancy Brown Guthrieof Wyandot Nation
Quindaro:
A Wyandot Indian wordmeaning, "a bundle of sticks,"
interpreted as"in union there is strength."
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
5/26
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
6/26
Ruins of Old Quindaro City and Landing Today
Marvin Robinson, Fred Whitehead, Steve Collins
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
7/26
Lucy B. Armstrong ,Wyandot by marriagemissionary's daughter,
Abolitionist
Wyandotsgoverned by clan councils of one man
and four women; women chose chiefs
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
8/26
Clarina Nichols , Co-editor of
Quindaro Chin-do-wan (Leader)
Vermont abolitionist, feministWomen's Rights,Women's Suffrage
Underground RailroadTeacher of Black students
Marilyn S. Blackwelland Kristen T. Oertel.
Diane Eickhoff
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
9/26
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
10/26
Wyandotte Constitution Which also expanded women's rights;
to own property; participate in school district elections;legal right of wives to retain household property;
this can not be lost by husband's indebtedness;secured legal recognition
of widows as heads of households
1861 Kansas Territory becomes a Free State Kansas and Feminism
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
11/26
Quindaro voters
approved Negro suffragein municipal elections;African-AmericansJerimiah Crump and Jimina KingMarried in Quindaro House hotel
Quindaro and Blacks -- Underground Railroad
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/16694.php
John Newman
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/16694.phphttp://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/16694.phphttp://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/16694.php -
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
12/26
ProminentGermans
in Quindaro
Henry Steiner and Jacob Zehntner,owned the Quindaro Brewery;Frederick Klaus, limestone quarryand stoneyard;
Jacob Henry brickyard and kiln;N. Ranzchoff, clothiers
In eastern Kansas (Wyandot City, Quindaro City, and Lawrence)
Germans were the largest ethnic group in Union Army
Phillip H.Knoblock
Union officeCharles
Morasch,brewe
TheodorPrau
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
13/26
August Bondi was in 1848 Revolution in Austriaand rode with John Brown atBattle of Black Jack, Kansas
Go West to Kansaand save it from the curse of slaver
A founder of Greeley, Kansas,a station on theUnderground Railroad:John Brown hid 11 slavesthere for one monthin January, 1859
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
14/26
German-American 48er Revolutionariesin Kansas Free State Struggle:
August Bondi,Theodor Weiner,Jacob Benjamin, Charley Kaiser,Charles Leonhardt
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
15/26
Race and Radicalism in the Union Army Mark A. Lause
John Brown and others sought aState of Topeka a utopia inwhich neither race nor gender
barred citizenship and equal rights
Some Unionists...articulated a triracial dream of nation's future
Forty-eighter German socialistAdolph Douai : anti-slavery Texaslinked strategically to Kansas byOklahoma Indian lands:
multi -racial revolution.
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
16/26
Dr. Charles Kob, Dr. Moritz Hartmann[Program for a belt of freedom]
Front page series by Douai
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
17/26
Mark Lauseon
Radicalism andAnti-Racism
After Harpers Ferry, Kansas radical, Richard Hinton, talked withGerman socialists of New York, Friedrich Kapp 's Kommunisten Klub , about liberating John Brown from prison, but Brown refused.
Jim Lane was most influential proponent of radical proposal to raiseand equip Indians and Blacks to reoccupy Indian Territory held bySouth. Radical associates of John Brown plunged into this work. Thisinvolved a rare level of interracial understanding, trust, and
cooperation.
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
18/26
JennisonMontgomeryStewartLeonhardt/Lenhart
Man of Douglas / Man of Lincoln (Ian Spurgeon)The Lane Trail / Underground Railroad
Lane's Army of the NorthLane's Frontier Guard of Lincoln at White HouseTriracial
Indian Brigade s
Gen. Lane 's KansasDanites /Jayhawkers
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
19/26
First Kansas Colored Infantry
William Matthews,First lieutenant,
Independent ColoredKansas Battery
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
20/26
James H. Lane personally inducted 48-er, CharlesLeonhardt, into Danites
Frank Baron
Lane with Indian Scouts;Bondi's writings
attribute Jayhawk
to Lane
Danites/ the first JayhawksTodd Mildfelt
men of valor...
appointed withweapons of war
200 man army KansasTerritorial militia
Acted in concert with John Brownto expel the slavepower.Leonhardt met with Wide Awakesin Omaha with UGRR
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
21/26
Todd Mildfelt onCharles F. W. Leonhardt and Esther Lewis
daughter of UGRR stationmaster in IowaFree State guerilla leader:
... it is utterly imposible for me to forget the deeimpression John Brown made onin our Homestruggles during 18471849 we had often held our own lia blood offering for our country's
as this man pleaded the cause of another people and race .
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
22/26
Charles Leonhardt's account (1870) of hisFree State Kansas participation
in Underground Railroad
C l i
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
23/26
Conclusions:
Transatlantic radicalism combined with advocacy of racialjustice represented a significant transformative force in U.S.history. But c ounterrevolution vs. Reconstruction Black power,
Western Indians, and militant industrial labor force (1876-77).International/intercultural human rights movements todayhave a genuine precedent here; this history should be partof our multicultural education curriculum reform effort.
Kansas history not just local, but national and inter-nationa l significance. The anti-racism and vanguard
political practice put forward by Quindaro NancyBrown Guthrie, Lucy Armstrong, Clarina Nichols, andFrederick Douglass was modeled by many German-American 48ers like Bondi and Leonhardt (and Marx).
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
24/26
Karl Marx On Kansas!(published in Die Presse , Vienna, 1861)
For hardly had the Kansas -Nebraska Bill gone through when armed emissaries of the slaveholders, border rabblefrom Missouri and Arkansas, with bowie-knife in one handand revolver in the other, fell upon Kansas and sought bythe most unheard of atrocities to dislodge its settlers from
the Territory colonized by them. These raids were supportedby the central government in Washington.
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
25/26
Marx
On Kansas and Missouri!
(published in Die Presse , Vienna 1861)
Colonel Jennison in Kansas has surpassed all his militarypredecessors by an address to his troops which contains thefollowing passage: I want no men who are not Abolitionists, I have no use for them, and I hope that thereare no such people among us, for everyone knows thatslavery is the basis, the center, and the vertex of thisinfernal war... The slavery question is being solved inpractice in the border slave states even now, especially
in Missouri.
-
7/30/2019 Learning from Quindaro: Indians, Feminists, Blacks, and Germans, Intercultural Action for Freedom in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1856-63
26/26
Karl Marx in
Das Kapital (1867)In the United States of North America every independent movement of the workers was paralyzed so long as slaverydisfigured part of the Republic. Labor cannot emancipateitself in the white skin where in the black it is branded. Butout of the death of slavery a new life at once arose. The
first fruit of the Civil War was the eight hours agitation.