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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 20
... labor . The " system of labor so pursued in Hayti , ” he wrote , " instead of affording us a proof of what may be accomplished by ” free labor " is illustrative of the fact , that it is by coercion , and coercion alone , that any return ...
... labor could be " employed in raising anything which human labor and the earth can pro- duce . " Douglass had no objections to individuals who elected to leave the United States , but he did not sympathize with those who combined in ...
... labor was more expensive than free labor , he pointed out that the South was no longer a reli- able supplier of the raw materials they required . Emigrationists placed unreal- istic faith in the antislavery powers of free labor cotton ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the ... Chris Dixon No preview available - 2000 |