Der Grosse Kurfürﬆ

Arndt, Karl J. R.; Lewalter, Ernst

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“…68 His periodical, Der Wächter, followed news of Christians captivity, but it also expressed his disappointment that the Great Powers at Vienna had done nothing to stop the New World slave trade or force the colonial powers to relinquish their slaves (Figure 3). 69 While New World slavery competed for Arndt's attention, the papal ambassador insisted that Christian slavery in the Barbary States be relieved before Black African slavery, which frustrated abolitionists such as William Wilberforce. 70 Publications uncritically repeated the papal representative's figures.…”

Section: Central Europe's Philhellenism Within International Relation...mentioning

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Under the Yoke of Ottoman Domination: Slavery and Central European Philhellenism During the Greek War of Independence

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2023

J Mod Eur Hist

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Slavery remained a problem for Central Europeans after the defeat of Napoleon. Concerns over White, Christian enslavement animated German-speaking European responses to the Greek Independence movement. As most antislavery advocates turned their attention to the increasing volume of the slaves traded between Africa and the New World, as well as the persistence and entrenchment of New World slavery, Central Europeans turned their attention to the Christian, Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire. The so-called ‘Barbary Problem’ ( Barbareskenfrage) became enmeshed with the Eastern Question as Greeks revolted in Ottoman lands. Central Europeans had long viewed the domination of Christians in Islamic North Africa as the central problem of slavery until increased German migration and involvement in the New World brought new tensions to the ideas surrounding slavery. Greek insurrectionists against the Ottoman Empire breathed new life into older ideas about Christians enslaved in Islamic portions of Europe and Africa. Greek Independence gave Germans a bête noir closer to Europe than that of slavery in the Americas. Much of this interest owes to an enduring German philhellenic tradition which has been seldom analysed. Indeed, as Sue Marchand has written ‘the obsession of the Schillerian German literary and scholarly elite with the ancient Greeks has become an accepted-if severely underanlaysed-cliché’. This paper uses archival documents to shed more light on how Central Europeans’ interest and participation in the Greek War of Independence helped to revive old ideas about Christian enslavement at a time when New World slavery became the central concern of a broader European humanitarian protest against servitude.

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Section: Central Europe's Philhellenism Within International Relation...mentioning

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Under the Yoke of Ottoman Domination: Slavery and Central European Philhellenism During the Greek War of Independence

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2023

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Der Grosse Kurfürﬆ

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Under the Yoke of Ottoman Domination: Slavery and Central European Philhellenism During the Greek War of Independence

Under the Yoke of Ottoman Domination: Slavery and Central European Philhellenism During the Greek War of Independence

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