Liberty and slavery : European separatists, southern secession, and the American Civil War /

In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn suggests that the language of slavery, the essence of human oppression, was a crucial component for revolutionary struggles, especially separatist ones, in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. By tracing separatist uprisings and revolutionaries f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eichhorn, Niels, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The separatist Atlantic world
  • The revolutions of 1830
  • 1848 in the North Atlantic revolutionary world
  • European secessionist migration
  • Antebellum separatist interaction
  • Secession and a separatist's dilemma
  • North America's separatist revolution
  • The defeat of secession in the North Atlantic.