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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... families until they can support themselves . " Encouraging other African Americans to settle in Haiti , he assured prospective emigrants that they could do well for themselves in the island republic.86 Serena M. Baldwin , another ...
... families , or one thousand individuals , would emigrate annually for five years . If the guarantees were extended for a further two years , the commissioners were prepared to promise that another one thousand families , or " five ...
... families back in the United States , African American settlers had " been in a destitute and suffering condition " since " their arrival . " In response to De Long's request , Hartz took thirty - nine emigrants back to the United States ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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