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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... forced to challenge black prejudices against that continent that had long focused on the activities of the ACS , and which reflected the influence of white America on mid - Contemplating Haiti: Black Emigrationism, 1854-1860.
... forced to endure in America . The emigrationist leadership emphasized the im- portance of land ownership for blacks , and for many African Americans the op- portunity to become a landowner was a powerful incentive . For most blacks ...
... forced Tate to cease his slanders , Redpath suggested that Tate return to Haiti.62 Such petulance did little to en- courage confidence in the bureau . Redpath's attitude toward his employees was no more reassuring . Writing in February ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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