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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... ground- work for subsequent emigration schemes to the black republic . By early 1824 , however , Saunders's role as the major advocate of Haitian emigrationism within the United States had been taken by a white man , the Reverend Loring ...
... ground on the question of selective or en - masse emigration , for if he believed the two races could not coexist as equals , then it is logical to assume he thought the only way all African Americans could secure real freedom would be ...
... ground to an early halt . Following reports from James De Long , the American consul at Aux Cayes , and from Benjamin Whidden , the newly appointed senior U.S. representative in Haiti , Secretary of the Inte- rior John P. Usher ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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