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The essay argues that the views of Alexander von Humboldt - the revered representative of Enlightenment and humanitarian thought, and a transatlantic intellectual who closely observed, and commented upon, developments in American society and politics - were used by the growing Republican party in the latter half of the 1850s to win the German-American vote. Humboldt had consistently condemned the...
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