Unequal Freedoms

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This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that they and their ethnic children conformed to or dissented from the norms of the dominant white Southern culture. It is an important topic that has long been neglected. Ambitious and convincing."--Walter D. Kamphoefner, author of "The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri" "Sheds light uniquely on the interaction of four groups in Charleston: German and Irish immigrants, African Americans, and native white southerners. Demonstrates the importance of Charleston's Germans and their relationships with African Americans throughout these thirty turbulent years."--Dennis C. Rousey, author of "Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, 1805-1889" "A provocative study that complicates and deepens our already extensive understanding of how both race and shifting ethnic identity shaped this important city in a critical era."--Bernard E. Powers, author of "Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885" During the latter half of the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants were as central to the development of the political economy of Charleston, South Carolina, as white southerners and African Americans. As artisans and entrepreneurs, foreigners occupied a middle tier in the racial and ethnic hierarchy of the South's most economically and politically important city. As agents of change, they provided a buffer, alleviating tensions between the castes until assimilating after emancipation and, in many instances, effectively embracing white supremacy. In "Unequal Freedoms, "Jeff Strickland examines the complex interplay of race, ethnicity, and class to reveal the pivotal ways in which European immigrants influenced the social, economic, and political development of the South.