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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... interest in black deportation de- clined among white Americans . During this period , slavery became more firmly entrenched in the South , eventually becoming the basis for an economic and political order - indeed , a whole way of life ...
... interest in recruiting teachers from abroad , whom they hoped would play a part in improving the republic's education system.64 In 1816 , in an effort to " excite a more lively concern for the promotion of the best interests , the ...
... interest in emigration to Africa has been celebrated in the historiogra- phy of nineteenth - century black America . Yet , while Delany's interest in Africa was of considerable significance , due attention must be given to the emerging ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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