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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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 Posted - 08/06/2013 : 04:16:23
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Not wishing to further junk up Mr. Hogseth's topic with this, I decided to start up a new one to deal with the issue.
I'm copying in several to-the-point references which might be more clarifying as to situations surrounding one's decision to leave Norway and how it might be accomplished or discouraged.
The first is a quote from an article by Albert O. Barton published in the NAHA annual and published on their site, my emphasis:
Norwegian-American Emigration Societies of the Forties and Fifties
By Albert O. Barton (Volume III: Page 23)
"....Taking alarm at the proportions which emigration was assuming in the later thirties, the authorities in Norway made energetic efforts to discourage it and succeeded so far as almost to bring about its practical suspension by 1840. Everywhere there was agitation against it. In 1837 Bishop Jacob Neumann of Bergen issued a pastoral letter to the peasants of the diocese of Bergen painting in dark colors the hazards of emigration. {6} Ministers preached from the pulpit against it and public officials imposed difficulties and sometimes coercive measures upon prospective emigrants. More influential perhaps than these agencies, however, were the so-called "America letters" and other writings, sent home by dissatisfied emigrants in America, such as the pamphlet by Peter Testman, published in Stavanger in 1839, and a letter by Sjur Jørgenson Lokrheim from the Fox River settlement. {7} Such writings were not infrequently printed in the Norwegian newspapers or brought out in pamphlet form.
Then there was a very long treatment of a bill proposed & studied by the Storting in 1843-1845, written by Theodore Blegen. Among many things which were in this proposed piece of legislation were requirements an aspiring emigrant might have to fulfill before leaving. It is noted in the article however that there was reluctance to interfere in an emigrant's process of leaving and eventually the discussion was tabled, no legislation ensuing.
The Norwegian Government and Early Norwegian Migration:http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/6/v06i02p115-140.pdf
And lastly a discussion of "p.attest" right here at norwayheritage;
http://www.norwayheritage.com/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5414&SearchTerms=permission
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Permission vs attest
