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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... population . " A year later , seeking to explain the movement's problems , Redpath told the Haitians that American blacks lacked self - reliance . Referring to the damage being inflicted on the movement by one aggrieved emigrant , the ...
... population was " not led astray " by the " new fangled movement of Mr. Redpath and his coadjutors , " Shadd Cary declared after the departure of one group of emigrants that the " scene was in every sense humiliating . " In a ...
... Population Geography of the Free Negro in Ante- Bellum America , " Population Studies , 3 ( 1950 ) : 387-88 . 25. Pine and Palm , 29 June 1861 , 21 September 1861 . 26. A. E. Newton to John Brown Jr. , 4 March 1861 , JRL - DU ; Redpath ...
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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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