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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... African American populace . Conversely , Garnet and his followers stressed the role that religion would play in the elevation of Africa . In this respect , members of the African Civilization Society were echoing the views expressed by ...
... African Civilization Society was widely construed as nothing more than the ACS in new garb.108 As one black critic , James McCune Smith , stated , the “ African Civilization Scheme is a feeble at- tempt to do what the American Colonization ...
... Africa . 100 William Wells Brown's denunciation of the African Civilization Society as a " begging concern ” was a typical rejection of the values Haitian emigrationists believed white colonizationists were seeking to instill among African ...
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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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