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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... Delany . Delany's life and career are relatively well known , and the story of emigra- tionism to Africa has been analyzed in considerable detail elsewhere.42 None- theless , some explanation of those subjects is required here , because ...
... Delany's tract in the Pennsylvania Freeman , repudiated emigrationism , and criticized Delany for his suspicious attitude toward whites.49 Although the Liberator gave a " friendly report , " William Lloyd Garrison did express opposition ...
... Delany's first stop in Africa was Liberia . He sought to rationalize this apparent inconsistency by claiming he had never spoken di- rectly " against Liberia , ” and although it is possible , as Cyril Griffith has sug- gested somewhat ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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