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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... Convention of Colored People began in late August 1854. This gathering represented a high point of antebellum emigrationism . Certainly for Martin Delany it was the point at which his influence among emi- grationists was at its zenith ...
... Convention of Colored Citizens : Held at Buffalo , on the 15th , 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th of August , 1843. For the Purpose of Considering their Moral and Political Conditions as American Citizens . New York : Piercy and Reed , 1843 ...
... Convention , to be Held in Cleveland , Ohio , August , 1854 , by Frederick Douglass , W. J. Watkins , and James ... Convention of the Colored Men of Ohio . Held in the City of Cincinnati on the 23d , 24th , 25th and 26th Days of November ...
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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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