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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... important role among blacks in the re- gion , Bibb not only worked to assist those African Americans who had settled there , but also encouraged others to emigrate to the area . As founder and edi- tor of the Voice of the Fugitive ...
... important role as spokesperson for the emigration- ists . His 1853-1854 exchanges with William J. Watkins over the emigration is- sue were subsequently published in pamphlet form , along with details on possible destinations to which ...
... important institution in African America , Redpath , like James Holly be- fore him , knew that potential emigrants to Haiti wanted assurances that they would be free to continue the religious practices that were so important to them ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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