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 leaders , particularly Frederick Douglass . In part , these issues have been contentious because the language , strategies , and goals of black leaders have often been amorphous . Black separatism , for example , did not ...
... black leaders believed were lacking in the African American populace.15 This was not the first occasion on which Delany had referred to Haiti . In an 1848 letter to the North Star , he had referred specifically to Haiti's significance ...
... black Amer- ica , and to the ambiguities and contradictions of the black nationalism that was espoused by the movement's leaders . Emigrants , many of whom left the United States not because of a deep - seated commitment to the ...
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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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