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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Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century Chris Dixon. Douglass reverted to a more traditional antislavery point of view , working as a traveling agent for the Massachusetts Anti - Slavery Society . Although Douglass did ...
... Douglass could be enticed into endorsing Haitian emigration , it would lend weight to the movement , and significantly enhance its chances of success . Redpath would have been well aware of Doug- lass ' consistent and trenchant ...
... Douglass , " The American Colonization Society , " Speech in Faneuil Hall , Boston , 8 June 1849 , in The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass , ed . Philip S. Foner , 4 vols . ( New York : International Publishers , 1952 ) , 1 : 394 ...
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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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