Hamburg German Hamburg German Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg or Hamburger dialect (), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term "Hamburgisch" is also used for Hamburg "Missingsch", a variety of standard German with Low Saxon substrates. These are urban dialects that have absorbed numerous English and Dutch loanwords, for instance "Törn" ‘trip’ (< turn) and "suutje" ‘gently’ (< Dutch "zoetjes"). Hamburg is pronounced in these dialects, with a "ch" similar to that in the standard German word "Milch". Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the pronunciation (and spelling)
Stand by the River Stand by the River Stand by the River is a musical written by Joanne and Mark Sutton-Smith based on the life of abolitionist William Still, his liberation of Jane Johnson and her two sons from slavery in 1855, and the federal trial that summer. A member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia and chairman of its Vigilance Committee, Still took Johnson and her sons from her master and into hiding just before their ship was to depart. They were en route from Washington, DC to New York City (from where they would sail to Nicaragua with her master.) He