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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... January 1862 . 18. Weekly Anglo - African , 5 April 1862 , 1 March 1862 ; M. B. Bird , The Black Man ; or , Haytian Independence . Deduced from Historical Notes , and Dedicated to the Government and People of Hayti ( 1869 ; reprint ...
... January 1861 . 98. Weekly Anglo - African , 22 December 1860 , 12 January 1861 , 19 January 1861 , 26 January 1861 . 99. James M. McPherson , Ordeal by Fire : The Civil War and Reconstruction ( New York : Knopf , 1982 ) , 267-71 . 100 ...
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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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