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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... offered hospitality and good com- pany . Despite the demands of their own teaching and research , a number of people have taken the time to read and comment upon all or some of this manuscript : I'm obliged to Shane White , Allan ...
... offered by the Haitian authorities . These in- ducements reflected the Haitian leadership's aforementioned desire to im- prove Haiti's agricultural output , by increasing the number of “ agriculturalists " in the country . African ...
... offered a senior post with the bureau , because Redpath went to the trouble of explain- ing that Newman had not been offered the job of general agent.94 As with the case of Shadd Cary , Newman's opposition to the Haitian scheme might ...
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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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