Wpływ polskiej emigracji w Europie Zachodniej na życie polityczne Polonii amerykańskiej przełomu lat siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych XIX wieku
The Influence of Polish Emigration in Western Europe in the Political Life of American Polonia at the Turn of the 1870s and 1880s

Summary/Abstract: The Polish diaspora in the United States of America in the nineteenth century changed over time. Mutual contacts between Polish emigration in Western Europe and Polish emigration in the US, also known as the American Polonia, were subject to change. Between the 1830s and 1860s, the relations of both emigrant groups were sporadic. Two factors influenced this state of affairs: their geographical distance and the small number of Polish political emigrants in the United States. This situation began to change in the late 1870s, when economic emigration began to develop, which caused a rapid increase in the Polish origin population in America.During this period, representatives of the Polish emigration in Europe (mainly living in France and Switzerland) began to seek contacts with their counterparts on the other side of the ocean. They did this so effectively that it lead to several joint initiatives. One of them was the establishment of the Polish National Union. This article is an attempt to trace the fruits of cooperation between the European and American emigration at the turn of the 1870s and 1880s. It talks about the people and institutions that participated in these contacts, including the successes and failures of joint initiatives.

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