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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... means of mutual racial sup- port , and as a means of promoting their goals . To surmount the long- lamented absence of a collective political consciousness among African Ameri- cans , Holly proposed the establishment of a " center of ...
... means was thrown into sharp relief by John Brown's failed raid at Harper's Ferry . Many white abolitionists equivocated over Brown's violent methods . For their black coadjutors , however , the issue was rather less theoretical ...
... means of deterring the slavepower from fulfilling its expansionist aspirations in Hai- ti's direction . Aware that African American leaders were concerned with the white South's plans to expand southward , Redpath sought to use those ...
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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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