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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... advocate of black colonization . But when the Massachusetts Assembly refused to support his plans , Thornton's proposals lapsed . In 1790 , Ferdinando Fairfax , a wealthy Virginian , elaborated the first detailed plan for African ...
... Advocates of the stay - and - fight theory were effectively turning to similar principles to those being advocated by ... advocate of Haitian emigrationism . James Whitfield was no less willing than other black leaders to contemplate a ...
... advocate of Central American emigration was no less flexible than Holly . This was James Whitfield , who was discussed earlier as the main advocate of the emigrationist position in the debate preceding the 1854 Emigration Convention ...
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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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