Friedrich Gerstäcker

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Gerstäcker, a German traveler and author who wrote about social conditions as he found them in backwoods Arkansas before the Civil War; circa 1846.

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Courtesy of the Stadtarchive Braunschweig, Germany

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