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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... appear to be much pleased in seeing them [ the emigrants ] here rendering every assistance in their power , for the comfort of the emigrants . " 89 Burton thus raised an important issue , concerning the reception offered to African ...
... appear at first glance . Not only had they all expressed disenchant- ment with the traditional stay - and - fight philosophy , but a number of them had shown interest in emigration on earlier occasions . It was probably inevitable that ...
... appears to increase in virulence and power . ” To ensure that African Americans were not ignored , he argued , they had to be " seen and felt in this conflict . " 108 Watkins ' argument that black emigration would ensure whites were ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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