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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... listed H. Ford Douglass as one of its agents . Although Harris and Douglass proposed sending an initial expedition to Cen- tral America before the end of 1859 , they were unable to secure financial sup- port for their plan.82 In early ...
... listing in the Union Army in 1862 , he wrote in February 1863 that “ national duties and responsibilities are not to be colonized , they must be heroically met and religiously performed . " 111 William Wells Brown , demonstrating the ...
... listed in the section entitled " Trades and Callings , " 197 claimed to be farmers , a figure that must be treated with some skepticism , for the reason just outlined . In addition , 64 emigrants classed themselves as laborers , but as ...
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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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