Liberty and Slavery (eBook)

European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War

Niels Eichhorn (Autor)

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2019
215 Seiten
LSU Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-7182-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn examines the language of slavery, which he considers central to revolutionary struggles, especially those waged in Europe in the nineteenth century. Eichhorn begins in 1830 with separatist movements in Greece, Belgium, and Poland, which laid the foundation for rebellions undertaken later in the century, and then shifts focus to the 1848 uprisings in Ireland, Hungary, and Schleswig-Holstein. He argues that revolutionaries embraced or rejected the language of slavery as they saw fit, using it to justify their rebellions and larger goals.

The failure of these insurgencies propelled a wave of revolutionary migrants across the Atlantic world. Those who journeyed to the United States felt the need to adjust to the political and sectional divisions in their new home. Eichhorn shows that separatism was widespread during this period; the secessionist aims of the American Confederacy were by no means unique.

Additionally, Eichhorn explores these migrants’ motivations for shunning the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Having been steeped in the language of slavery and separatism, they naturally sided with the Union when the sectional crisis culminated in civil war in 1861.

Autor

Niels Eichhorn is assistant professor of history at Middle Georgia State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Reihe/Serie: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 1830 • 1848 • 1861 • 19th Century Revolutions • 19th Century Uprisings • 48ers • Belgium • Confederacy • confederate states of America • European migrants • Forty-Eighters • Greece • Immigration • Nineteenth-Century Uprisings • Ninteenth-Century Revolutions • Poland • Revolutionary Migrants • sectional crisis • Sectional Division • Seperatist Revolution • Seperatist Uprising • transnational history • Transnational Migration
• ISBN-10: 0-8071-7182-4 / 0807171824
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7182-0 / 9780807171820