Becoming St. Louis : family, faith, and the politics of citizenship, 1820-1920 / Sharon Hartman Strom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strom, Sharon Hartman, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--19th century.

Women--Missouri--Saint Louis--19th century.

Racism--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--19th century.

Saint Louis (Mo.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Saint Louis (Mo.)--History.

Physical Description:

197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Becoming Saint Louis

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025]

Summary:

"St. Louis was the pivot of the free states and slave states and the border of the settled East and frontier West. Sharon Hartman Strom draws on disparate and previously untapped sources to weave the personal and public lives of women and both free and enslaved African Americans into city history. Strom's analysis shows how the embrace of Protestantism by people of color sparked a vigorous antislavery movement. During the Civil War, several prominent citizens served in the Lincoln cabinet and Congress while Missouri's decision to remain in the Union allowed the city to find its own ways to end slavery and grant citizenship to African Americans. Years later, biracial movements to advance equality collapsed when the East St. Louis race riot of 1917 affirmed that racist attitudes and structures still dominated the region. Illuminating and nuanced, becoming St. Louis offers a diverse social and political history of the city during a transformative era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : family, faith, and the politics of citizenship in St. Louis, 1820-1920

Slavery and freedom at the bend of the Mississippi

Domesticity, immigration, and the crises of 1849

Redefining citizenship from the Dred Scott case to Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War in the Valley of the Mississippi

What rights should all citizens have?

"Nothing of the horrors of slavery"

"A race without a history is soon forgotten".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Hartman Strom, Sharon Becoming St. Louis

ISBN:

9780252046742

0252046749

9780252088841

0252088840

OCLC:

1518919459