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==== South Tussenland Revolution (1849) and Independence ====
Tensions between the slaves and the Dutch ruling minority was at an high in 1840. The Royal Tussenland Company practiced harsh treatment towards the slaves, causing a lot of slaves to either die, flee to the Spanish colonies, or hide in maroon communities. However, a huge majority of slaves suffered under the Royal Tussenland Company's rule. A unique Dutch creole culture had evolved in the region. In the midst of the [[2nd Dutch-Spanish War]], Tussenland saw a slave insurrection beginning to form in the south, spearheaded by a "prophet" who had claimed to be sent by God to liberate the slave-population of southern Tussenland. A religious movement soon formed in southern Tussenland, named the Church of the Second Ascension (also called Zoekerism; from Dutch: ''Zoek'' 'to seek'). To undermine the Dutch, Spain had supported this slave insurrection. The southern region declared independence officially as the United Gemeenten (religious communities) of South Tussenland (Dutch: ''Verenigde Gemeenten van Zuyd Tussenlandt''), led by the ex-slave prophet [[Abayomi van Tussenlandt]]. Spain was the first nation to recognize this new nation.
The newly independent Southern Tussenland in 1850 supported the Spanish against the Dutch during the duration of the war.
==== The Plight of the Suyderlings ====
The white Dutch minority were dubbed by other Amerikaners as the Suyderlings (lit. Southerlings). During the Southern Tussenland revolution, a majority of Suyderlings fled to the Irokesenland Protectorate north of South Tussenland. However, there were Suyderlings who fled to the west, to the Anahuac strip (a haven for Suyderlings), confident that the Dutch would eventually retake the colony. However, in 1851, Southern Tussenland revolutionaries were able to take the city of Anahuac. On the eve of September 12, 1851, a group of fringe radical Zoekerists ambushed a caravan of Suyderlings who were trying to escape to Dutch controlled Tussenland in the north. A total of 48 adult Suyderlings and 12 radical Zoekerists were killed. Upon hearing of the tragedy, revolutionary leader Abayomi van Tussenland condemned the attacks and ordered the purging of the radical group. The Suyderling Memorial (built in 1998) in South Mizoerie, Tussenland, is dedicated to the memory of the killed Suyderlings and Afro-Amerikaners alike during that fateful day.
Most of the surviving Suyderlings ended up in the Irokesenland Province of the Federation of Tussenland, where they were given plots of lands by the Irokees government. However, slavery was outlawed so the Suyderlings had to rely on a system of sharecropping to run the plantations. In 1903, after Tussenland declared independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a majority of the surviving Suyderlings and their descendants migrated to the provinces of North Mizoerie and South Mizoerie, which was initially blocked by the Kingdom of the Netherlands from European settlement. A lot of indigenous groups in these two provinces were forcibly migrated to the newly formed country of Opdamsland (which was created as a buffer territory, and is essentially a puppet of the new government of Tussenland).
=== Post-Independence (1855-present) ===
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