Abstract
In this article we analyze how Swedish press understood emigration to America during the years between 1861 and 1865, when the American Civil War was ongoing. The United Stated already were, by then, the most important recipient of Swedish immigrants abroad, in a process that would last up to the third decade of the 20th century. Based upon a corpus of almost a thousand articles and news, we study how the early public opinion on emigration was created. In contrast with what characterized the first third of the 20th century, by the middle of the 19th century the Swedish newspapers offered a quite equidistant, almost positive view on emigration.
Keywords:
Public opinion; Emigration; Sweden - Press