Alexa Pfeiffer/News Tribune photo: Actors Evann De-Bose (left) and Dick Dalton portray Cornelious Rogers and Judge Arnold Krekel in the play Two Worlds: One America by Cecilia Nadal at The Shared History of German and African Americans in Missouri event at Lincoln University's Pawley Theater Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Judge Arnold Krekel was a German Immigrant and abolishionist who was a teacher at Lincoln after the civil war. Rogers was a member of Union army and attended Lincoln classes taught by Krekel.
It's so difficult for people to leave a country they love.
But sometimes they have to find the freedoms they crave.
Many German immigrants in the 1800s, while establishing roots for themselves, still recognized the evil of slavery and set about changing their new homes.
