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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... History - 19th century . 4 . Haiti Emigration and immigration - History - 19th century . 5. United States - Emigration and immigration - History - 19th century . I. Title . II . Series . E185.18.D59 2000 304.8'7294073 21 - dc21 99 ...
... Historical Studies , 7 ( 1974 ) : 183–202 . 11. On Sierra Leone , see Christopher Fyfe , A History of Sierra Leone ( London : Oxford University Press , 1962 ) ; Richard West , Back to Africa : A History of Sierra Le- one and Liberia ...
... History of Black Americans . 3 vols . Westport , Conn .: Greenwood Press , 1975-83 . Foster , Charles I. " The Colonization of Free Negroes in Liberia , 1816-1835 , " Jour- nal of Negro History , 38 ( 1953 ) : 41-66 . Fox , Early Lee ...
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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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