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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... South , eventually becoming the basis for an economic and political order - indeed , a whole way of life - that was vastly different from that which developed in the North . A major factor in that process was the de- velopment in 1793 ...
... South . With their opportunities for social and civic equality diminishing , and with white racial attitudes hardening throughout the nation , a mood of pessimism was evident within black America during the late 1850s . The growing ...
... South America - regions where blacks ' weight of numbers made them the " ruling element . " 13 Notwithstanding Delany's determination to assert blacks ' strength of char- acter , his document reflected the contradictory racial ...
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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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