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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... evidence of mass hostility . Within a month of the formation of the ACS , blacks began expressing their opposition to the scheme . In late January 1817 , three thousand blacks gathered at the Bethel Church in Philadelphia , where they ...
... evidence that they attached great meaning to the Haitian Revolution.58 Both as a symbol , and as an unparalleled example of black will , Haiti represented many of the aspira- tions of free blacks in the United States . Some African ...
... evidence to that effect . Redpath's personal skills were no less questionable . Although John McKivi- gan has described Redpath as " an energetic administrator and skillful propa- gandist for his Bureau , " the failure of the Haitian ...
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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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