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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... established in the United States , and elsewhere.29 From the early nineteenth century Haiti stood as a tangible expression of those links between race and nationality . Ironically , although American mer- chants established a lively ...
... established in the cities of the North . Groups such as the African Union Society of Newport , Rhode Island , and the Free African Society of Philadelphia , were interested in a diverse range of issues , ranging from the abolition of ...
... established in American culture . Predicating his proposals on the notion that African Americans ' elevation " must be the re- sult of self - efforts , " and the work of their " own hands , " Delany proposed that black advancement was ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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