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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... claimed , that the emi- grationists regarded Delany as the " guiding spirit for their movement , " he was not in sole control.73 Not only was there disagreement concerning the most suitable destination for African American emigrants ...
... claimed that Tate was misrep- resenting him , and doing a great disservice to the bureau . Soon after , threaten- ing to resign unless the Haitian Government forced Tate to cease his slanders , Redpath suggested that Tate return to ...
... Claiming that the " thinking portion " of the black population was " not led astray " by the " new fangled movement of Mr ... claimed that Af- rican Americans who had gone to Haiti were being forced to join the army - a claim that was ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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