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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... growth of radical abolitionism . This chapter examines black American emigrationism from the pre - Revolutionary period through to the early 1830s , paying particular attention to the 1820s , when Haitian emigrationism was a direct and ...
... growth in Saint Domingue was based on the labor of hundreds of thousands of African slaves . On the eve of the French Revolu- tion the thirty thousand whites on the island - themselves divided between those who were born in France , and ...
... growth of cotton . " 47 Opponents of the Haitian scheme quickly seized upon Holly's ill - judged remarks . As one contributor to the Weekly Anglo - African remarked , while decomposition took place more quickly in Haiti than it did in ...
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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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