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 nationalism , emigrationists were confronting racial values and ... republic's economic difficulties as evidence of blacks ' inability to act ... black nationality - emigration to the island republic took place within the wider ...
... black Americans were “ African , " and therefore not entitled to the ... republic of Haiti , at- tracted wide interest within the African American ... republic , and provided the context in which they would debate the question of ...
... black emigrationists ' descriptions of their schemes as a means by which African Americans could assert their ... republic was a source of pride for black Americans , who lauded Tous- saint L'Ouverture , and praised the Haitians ' valor ...
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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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