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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... plan . William Thornton , a West Indian , was another early advocate of black colonization . But when the Massachusetts Assembly refused to support his plans , Thornton's proposals lapsed . In 1790 , Ferdinando Fairfax , a wealthy ...
... plans . This proved to be a typical pattern of emigrationism during the ensuing decade . Nevertheless , the ideas and aspirations behind plans such as the North Ameri- can League were of enduring significance . They point to increasing ...
... plan as " the most pernicious and impudent of all schemes for the perpetuity of the degradation of our race . " 20 For ... plans . There were many factors inhibiting emigration , particularly emigration to Africa . Perhaps the major flaw ...
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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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