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I came across this snippet today and wondered: what was the position of abolitionists with regard to 'nativism'?
"Although Mitchel was from an Ulster Presbyterian background himself, he had lost his faith as a young man and had a particular contempt for the reforming zeal and puritan self-righteousness of the evangelical Protestants who formed the backbone of the abolitionist movement. The fact that many evangelical abolitionists were also anti-Irish nativists hardened his antipathy towards them".
http://www.historyireland.com/18th-...zen-john-mitchel-the-confederacy-and-slavery/
It seems contradictory to me that abolitionists should refute slavery, yet simultaneously struggle to be inclusive of immigrants. In asking this question I am assuming the position of abolitionists was one of equality as well as freedom.
"Although Mitchel was from an Ulster Presbyterian background himself, he had lost his faith as a young man and had a particular contempt for the reforming zeal and puritan self-righteousness of the evangelical Protestants who formed the backbone of the abolitionist movement. The fact that many evangelical abolitionists were also anti-Irish nativists hardened his antipathy towards them".
http://www.historyireland.com/18th-...zen-john-mitchel-the-confederacy-and-slavery/
It seems contradictory to me that abolitionists should refute slavery, yet simultaneously struggle to be inclusive of immigrants. In asking this question I am assuming the position of abolitionists was one of equality as well as freedom.
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