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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... leadership con- cluded , were " only calculated to distract and divide the whole colored fam- ily . " 122 Yet , although the black leadership railed against emigration , the fact they went to such lengths to denounce such proposals ...
... leadership . It also hinted at the telling legacy of the ACS , and implied that black leaders viewed potential emigration schemes as rivals , rather than complementary parts of an overall strategy . Dif- ferences between black leaders ...
... leaders of the Haitian scheme of the Civil War era jostled with the proponents of African emigrationism for the mantle of leadership of the vaguely defined emigration movement . This process was evidenced by events at the 1856 ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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