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union was short-lived, however, as her new husband was abusive and drank to excess. Mathilde left Alfred within a year, taking her infant daughter, Johanna (known as "Fanny"), with her. The grueling process of obtaining an official divorce (secured in 1841) made it clear that law and custom left women and children vulnerable.
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As a teenager, however, Giesler's family suffered a decline in fortune due to investment losses. Her marriage at age nineteen was one strategy to secure family finances. Alfred von
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had not prohibited discrimination in voting law on the basis of sex as well as race. Woman suffrage was unpopular among men in the US, especially immigrant men, who associated it with temperance and Yankee
Protestantism. Anneke found herself mediating between the organized suffrage movement and the
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Anneke returned to
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Annekes continued to correspond regularly and sometimes show affection to each other, but they never lived together again. Meanwhile, Anneke and Booth raised three of their children and collaborated to write abolitionist fiction. "Die Sclaven-Auction" (The slave auction) appeared
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that year, and other collaborative works would follow. They often struggled to get paid for their writing, and their husbands were not forthcoming with financial support, so the two women often had to go into debt to afford necessities. Both were also often unwell, and Booth's progressing
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Anneke's time in New Jersey was fraught with tragedy as she lost four children, including her oldest son Fritz and three younger children. Johanna ("Fanny") left home, while Anneke, her husband, her son Percy, and her daughter Hertha returned to
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finally convinced her to return to the United States in summer 1864 to see her oldest daughter and receive medical care. Anneke was devastated by the separation and saddened although not surprised to learn of Booth's death on April 11, 1865.
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Bilic, Viktorija. "'Warum noch länger die demütige Magd, die ihrem Herrn die Füße wäscht?': Mathilde
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