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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... criticize what he regarded as Delany's over- stated praise for free blacks vis - à - vis slaves.51 Perhaps the most notable criticism came from Delany's erstwhile colleague , Frederick Douglass , who refused even to comment on the work ...
... criticism in terms that emphasized the lack of cooperative spirit among the emigrants . One Haitian report asserted : " Strangers to each other for the most part , the truth of the matter is , the immigrants assist each other but very ...
... critic of the Haitian scheme.80 Smith assailed the movement from its inception , but he was no blind critic of all ... criticism of the Haitian scheme came from other emigrationists . Martin Delany's objections to the Haitian scheme ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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