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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... Hayti should be placed upon such a basis as would relieve our commerce with that Republic from the inconveniences to which it is now subject , in consequence of the unjust treat- ment of our Government towards Hayti . " " Why should Hayti ...
... Hayti for Philadelphia , Joint Commissioner Plenipotentiary of Hayti to the government of the U.S. & General Agent of Emigration to Hayti for the U.S. and Canada , 31 December 1861 to 12 May 1862 , Schomburg Center for Re- search in ...
... Hayti for Philadelphia , Joint Commissioner Plenipotentiary of Hayti to the Government of the U.S. & General Agent of Emigration to Hayti for the U.S. and Canada , De- cember 31 , 1861 to May 12 , 1862 , Schomburg Center for Research in ...
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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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