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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... Redpath jour- neyed to St. Louis , where he found work with the Missouri Democrat . Despatched to Kansas , his reports on the conflict there attracted national at- tention . Redpath spent much of the period between 1855 and 1859 in Kan ...
... Redpath to Plésance , 9 March 1862 , Correspondence of James Redpath , Commercial Agent of Hayti for Philadelphia , Joint Commissioner Plenipotentiary of Hayti to the government of the U.S. & General Agent of Emigration to Hayti for the ...
... Redpath to “ Mr. Coffin , ” 2 April 1861 , JRL - DU ; Liberator , 12 July 1861 ; Redpath to Plésance , 6 April 1861 , LRJR- LC ; Redpath to William H. Johnson , 18 June 1861 , cited in William Henry Johnson Autobiography , 50 , included ...
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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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