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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... North . Yet , although emancipa- tion brought significant changes for African Americans in the North , the free- dom they achieved was always tempered by the often brutal realities of American racism . Disadvantaged in terms of their ...
... North American League " -comprising the black populations of Canada and the United States - was presented by another delegate , John Fisher . Holly's pro- posal for the North American League was an important stage in the evolution of ...
... North American and West Indian Trad- ing Association , 110 North American Convention of Col- ored People ( 1851 ) , 67 , 70 North American League , 70 , 71 The North Star , 75 , 92 Oberlin College , 93 Official Report of the Niger ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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