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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... noted , the " camp meetings , which were at first allowed , " were “ an interesting test to the reigning thoughts of the day . " But because the meetings were a challenge to the prevailing religious order ( and because they were ...
... noted , but his prejudice against “ Romanism " was exacerbated in the case of Haiti , because , as he put it in 1859 , the island republic had been influenced by " the corruptest forms of that corrupt Church . " Holly , however , was ...
... noted that when they reached Haiti they felt as if they were men - for the first time in their lives . George Lawrence , an editor of the Pine and Palm , phrased the emigrationists ' vision of “ upbuilding black nationali- ties " in ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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