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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... York : Simon & Schuster , 1972 ) ; Henry N. Sherwood , " Paul Cuffee , " Journal of Negro History , 8 ( 1923 ) : 153–229 . 14. Miller , Search for a Black Nationality , 51-53 . 15. Henry N. Sherwood , " The Formation of the American ...
... York City , where his proposal was brought before the Episcopal Church's For- eign Committee . Although the Church approved in principle of the idea of es- tablishing a mission in Haiti , no funds were forthcoming , at least officially ...
... York : International Publishers , 1952 ) , 1 : 394 . 130. Douglass , " The Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Negro Peo- ple , " May 1853 , in Foner , Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass , 2 : 252-53 . 131. Douglass to ...
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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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