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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... land on which they worked . Boyer's immediate predecessor , Christophe , had made some efforts toward the end of his reign to redistribute land among the Hai- tian people . Similarly , during the early part of Boyer's presidency , a ...
... land . " Noting that the objections to emigration centered on the feeling that blacks should not leave the land of their birth , thereby for- saking the slaves , he argued that on close examination , that line of thinking had little ...
... land as the smaller number of blacks who owned the land upon which they worked , agricultural laborers were generally less well off , and hence unable to afford to make their way to the east coast points of embarkation . When ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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