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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... Persons of Colour , for Improving Their Condition in the United States ; for Purchasing Lands ; and for the Establishment of a Settlement in Upper Canada , also the Proceedings of the Convention , with Their Address to the Free Persons ...
... persons , who , while among us , cannot be of us . " For Mitchell , " persons of a different race " unavoidably formed " a distinct interest . " Accord- ingly , although he argued he was making a " plea for the nationality of the ne ...
... Persons of Colour , for Improving Their Condition in the United States ; for Purchasing Lands ; and for the Establish- ment of a Settlement in Upper Canada , also the Proceedings of the Conven- tion , with Their Address to the Free Persons ...
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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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