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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... masters . Amid the ensuing bloodshed , it " did not take long for slaveholders to envision an American Saint Domingue . " More is said later regarding the sig- nificance of the revolution in Saint Domingue , and its impact on black con ...
... masters and establishing a black republic . Ironically , by exerting so much energy denouncing Haiti , white Americans perhaps increased the slaves ' awareness of events in Haiti . Moreover , an influx of more than twelve thou- sand ...
... Masters , 314-15 ; Christopher Phillips , Freedom's Port : The African American Community of Baltimore , 1790–1860 ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1997 ) , 221 . 59. Walker , Appeal , in Four Articles , Together with a ...
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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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