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 coloniza- tion continued to beguile many white Americans , a majority of the antebellum free black population was convinced that white proponents of black coloni- zation sought to reinforce the racial barriers that stood in the ...
... black Americans to Haiti was analogous to " that of our own settlers , " who ... population , and sensing an opportunity to import such skilled blacks , the ... black republic.30 The departure of several hundred blacks during January 1860 ...
Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century Chris Dixon. blacks ... population was " not led astray " by the " new fangled movement of Mr ... black population were departing for Haiti . As she had on earlier occasions , Shadd ...
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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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