r developed in economic terms than the kingdom. Holstein and Lauenburg were both part of the German Confederation and were both German in linguistic and cultural terms. Schleswig was more divided; the majority of the landowners, town-dwellers and peasants in South Schleswig were German-speaking, whilst the North Schleswig peasants mostly spoke Danish. In 1830, the liberals in the duchies called for a liberal constitution for a united Schleswig-Holstein. Their demands were ignored by Frederik VI and his autocratic government, and the most prominent of the Schleswig-Holstein supporters, Uwe Jens Lornsen, was imprisoned. The consultative agreement of 1831 sought to preserve the unity of the kingdom; the question of a consultative assembly for Holstein w!
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