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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... late , has greatly changed in regard to the American Colonization scheme . So far as it benefits the land of my fathers , I bid it Godspeed , but so far as it denies the pos- sibilities of our elevation , I oppose it . I would rather ...
... late 1857 , he remarked that " St. Domingo is often re- ferred to , to frighten the North out of the idea [ of black freedom ] . " Pointing to the contradictory stereotypes presented of dark - skinned people , he noted that " we are ...
... late 1861 few African Americans were willing to die in Haiti for the advancement of Holly's Christian - emigrationist dream . Given that Holly had explained in 1850 that one reason he could not emigrate to Liberia was because of the ...
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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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