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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... Report on Emigration , moreover , African Americans lacked the advantages of the curiously phrased " civilized warfare . " Nevertheless , the report did state , in terms strikingly simi- lar to those used by Henry Highland Garnet in ...
... Report of the Select Committee on Emancipa- tion and Colonization , Report No. 148 , 37th Congress , 2nd Session ( Washington , D.C .: Government Printing Office , 1862 ) , 40 , 43 , 45 , 57 . 14. Delany , " Political Destiny of the ...
... Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party . New York : T. Hamilton , 1861 . " Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent , ” re- printed in House of Representatives , Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation ...
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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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