African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth CenturyWhile much has been written about the antebellum African American interest in emigration to Africa, the equally significant interest in Haitian emigration has been largely overlooked. Although free blacks spurned attempts by the American Colonization Society to return them to Africa, during the 1820s, and again during the 1850s and early 1860s, as conditions for African Americans became ever more precarious, thousands of blacks left the U.S. for Haiti searching for civic freedom and economic opportunity in the world's first independent black republic. Such prospects caught the attention of not only the African American leadership but of the black populace as well. In discussing the growing interest in Haitian emigration, Dixon provides ongoing discussions concerning black nationalism as an ideology. |
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... asserted , to be " dead free- men than living slaves . " 38 Concluding that an African American revolution was not viable , Holly and his fellow members of the Committee on Emigration urged blacks to direct their attentions to the more ...
... assert- ing that no person could be independent unless they owned the land on which they lived , he introduced a ... asserted , for them to " create an event . " One means of so doing was by African Americans relocat- ing to a region ...
... asserted , " who are cleanly in their persons , and whose constitutions are not in- jured by the use of spirituous liquors and other excesses , may live in Hayti to an advanced age without being subjected to many serious attacks of ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Emigrationism in Practice | 177 |
Conclusion | 217 |
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