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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... continued to express interest in attracting black migrants from the United States . Pursuing the policy initiated by Des- salines of encouraging immigration , Henry Christophe offered prospective black immigrants from the United States ...
... continued large - scale importation of African la- borers , who were used to replenish the slave population that was constantly depleted by the harsh conditions of the French slave system . Consequently , Af- rica continued to loom ...
... continued exodus of several thousand African Americans to Canada in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act testified to a general feeling of dissatisfaction and fear on the part of the black populace in the United States . Following 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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