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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... equality and an end to slavery . In choosing to stay and fight for freedom and equality in the United States , African Americans embraced many of the tenets of the individualism charac- teristic of antebellum America . By 1830 , there ...
... equality . The political system's disappointing response to questions of race was paral- leled by the judiciary's willingness to follow , rather than lead , white public opinion on the twin problems of slavery and racism . In 1856 , the ...
... equality , " a view that was implicitly consistent with a large - scale emigration . And , even though he argued that emigration should be on a selective basis , his statement that Haiti's " rich resources invite the capacity of ...
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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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