路易斯·科苏特是1848年匈牙利独立革命的领袖,被那个时代的美国人视为华盛顿式的自由战士。然而,他于1851年12月至1852年7月访问美国期间,为了争取美国的财政、物资和道义支持以及美国对匈牙利事务的干预,故意回避美国的奴隶制问题,宣布不干预美国的“国内问题”。他在美国奴隶制问题上保持沉默,对美国的“自由”制度极尽溢美之词,引起了废奴主义者和非裔美国人的愤怒。科苏特在美国奴隶制问题上的立场以及美国人对于他访美的反应,凸显了美国自由与奴隶制之间的悖论,促进了美国人对二者之间的矛盾的审视。 Luis Kozette was the leader of the Hungarian Independent Revolution of 1848 and regarded by the Americans of that era as a Washington-style freedom fighter. However, during his visit to the United States from December 1851 to July 1852, he deliberately avoided the issue of slavery in the United States and declared that it would not interfere with the United States in order to gain U.S. financial, material and moral support as well as U.S. intervention in the affairs of Hungary. Domestic problems “. He remained silent on the question of slavery in the United States and gave the best of the United States’s ”freedom" system, arousing the anger of abolitionists and African-Americans. Kotsu’s position on the issue of slavery in the United States and the reaction of the Americans to his visit to the United States highlight the paradox between freedom and slavery in the United States and promote the American’s examination of the contradictions between the two.