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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... Christian values to the island republic . During the 1820s , however , perhaps because African American religious ... Christianity and African religious beliefs had taken in the various regions of the New World . There were , to be sure ...
... Christian religion , specifically the Episcopal Church , was destined to play a vital role in the elevation of the black race , both in the United States and else- where . By 1856 , the main planks of Holly's Christian - emigrationist ...
... Christian Recorder , 7 September 1861. See also Redpath to Plésance , 1 December 1860 , HBE - BPL . 92. Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease , Black Utopia : Negro Communal Experi- ments in America ( Madison : State Historical Society of ...
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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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