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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... names , but which was clearly a reflection of his own increasingly emigrationist and nationalistic position . In " The Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Con- tinent " Delany reiterated many of the principles he had ...
... name sug- gests that he was an expatriate American , rather than a native Haitian . In any case , while there is no record that Williams took an active part in the proceed- ings of that convention , his presence does imply that certain ...
... name of Haiti a terror to tyrants and slaveholders throughout the world ? " For Gibbs , the events in Haiti testified to the courage of black men , and served as a warning to southern slaveholders . As he asserted , " the terrible ...
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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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