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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... black republic , was a source of pride for black Americans . That pride contributed to the African American interest in Haiti during the early nineteenth century . The Haitian movement of the 1820s was a significant episode in African ...
... black Americans were imbued to become the norm in Haiti ; or were black American emigrants to become " Haitianized " ? This question , at the heart of the emigra- tionists ' black nationalist ideology , was of immediate concern to those ...
... black emigrationists ' descriptions of their schemes as a means by which African Americans could assert their “ manliness ... African American consciousness . White Americans ' scorn for Haiti , however , did not mean the issue of emi ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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