Liberty and Slavery by Niels Eichhorn

Author:Niels Eichhorn [Eichhorn, Niels]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Slavery, History, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9780807171820
Google: YNquDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-10-09T02:44:33+00:00

When separatists of the Polish uprising of 1830 and the Hungarian, Irish, Polish, and Schleswig-Holstein uprisings of 1848 arrived in the United States, their initial goal was to continue the struggle for the freedom of their homelands. As their stay became protracted and no new revolutions materialized, however, they reconciled with the permanency of their exile. Once separatist migrants became politically involved, they faced a difficult decision. Was their sympathy with the northern states, against a perceived slave-power conspiracy, which saw the southern minority dictate terms, and with an enslaved population working southern fields? Or were they to remain loyal to their separatist identity and sympathize with the perceived politically oppressed southerners, who had to defend their social system against northern aggression?

European experiences informed separatist migrants’ decisions in the United States. However, economic, political, or social enslavement and actual human enslavement were quite different. Europeans had to reconcile their various constitutional and legal arguments to fit the situation in the United States. Polish and Hungarian separatists associated their uprising with the plight of African American slaves in the southern states, but even more, they saw in southern society a political system of oppression against the entire country. Others saw the southern social and political system as oppressive. European separatists who had described their oppression in political terms, like the Irish, were likely to side with the constitutional arguments of the southern states again northern imperial oppression. However, the 1850s had not required European separatist to pick sides; the election of 1860 did.

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