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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... question of liberty for a continent . ” No longer , he asserted , could it be argued that Africans were unfit to be ranked " with civilized nations . " 102 Another commentator , writing in 1826 , also suggested there would be positive ...
... question was linked to the question of who should go to Haiti , and how the movement should be organized . Holly's comments on these issues reflected his aversion to Liberian colonization and his assumption that slaves lacked many of ...
... question of nationality to the masculine ideal . Certain emigrants noted that when they reached Haiti they felt as if they were men - for the first time in their lives . George Lawrence , an editor of the Pine and Palm , phrased the ...
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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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