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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... Brown , and his assessment of Brown's actions , warrant some analysis , for it is there further evidence is found of Redpath's disillusionment with the opportunities for genuine reform in the United States . It was from that sense of ...
... Brown's failed raid at Harper's Ferry . Many white abolitionists equivocated over Brown's violent methods . For their black coadjutors , however , the issue was rather less theoretical . Watkins ' comment that Brown " died [ so ] that ...
... Brown had visited Cuba , Haiti , and possibly other West In- dian islands.87 In 1855 , following his European sojourn , one of the lectures Brown delivered in England was published under the title St. Domingo : Its Revolutions and Its ...
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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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