(Ebook) Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri by Robert W. Frizzell ISBN 9780826217615, 9780826266095, 0826217613, 0826266096

(Ebook) Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri by Robert W. Frizzell ISBN 9780826217615, 9780826266095, 0826217613, 0826266096

Between 1838 and the early 1890s, German peasant farmers from the Kingdom of Hanover made their way to Lafayette County, Missouri. Frizzell traces the new community s growth as he examines the success of early agricultural efforts, but he also tells how the community strayed from the cultural path set by its freethinker founder to become a center of religious conservatism. Frizzell shows how Concordia differed from other German immigrant communities in America and explores the conditions in Hanover that caused people to leave. During the Civil War, the antislavery Hanoverians found that most of their neighbors sympathized with Confederate guerrillas. Though notorious Bloody Bill Anderson attacked the community three times, the community flourished after the war and even bought out the farmsteads of former slaveholders.