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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... America's westward expansion held even more troubling portents for black Americans . The Mexican War of 1846-1848 , widely regarded by African Americans and abolitionists as evidence of the growing power and influence of the slavepower ...
... African Americans to Haiti . Be- fore he left Haiti , he put a series of questions to the new government , regard- ing the terms under which black Americans might emigrate . When he returned to the United States in April 1859 he set out ...
... American " civilization " was couched in explicitly masculinist terms , black emigrationists ' descriptions of their schemes as a means by which African Americans could assert their “ manliness " were suggestive of the value attached to ...
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Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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