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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... potential of regions to the south of the United States . Like Holly , Bibb linked the fortunes of blacks in the United States and Canada to the fate and status of black people in the Caribbean . Declaring that blacks in the British West ...
... potential emigrants that excessive servil- ity , and unrealistic ambitions , would have an equally destructive effect on a new movement to Haiti . Lacking the " principle of self - reliance , ” the emi- grants who traveled to Haiti ...
... potential as an effective bea- con and agent of black liberation and elevation . Specifically , Haiti required an infusion of African American expertise and energy , and Christianity , if it was to reach its true potential as an ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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