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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... purchase the Spanish part of the island and cede it to Haiti . This suggests that even before 1823 , when President James Monroe declared American opposition to any new attempts by the European powers to colonize the Americas , some ...
... purchase as much land as possible , and agreed it was suitable as a " temporary asylum " for African Americans , he feared , as he had in 1852 , that at " no very distant day " the Brit- ish Provinces would be annexed by the United ...
... purchase farms , " blacks " must emigrate " if they were to " become tillers of the soil . " It was better , Haitian emigrationists argued , for blacks to become landowners in the island republic than it was for them to stay in the ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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