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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... racial imperatives that underpinned American racism , the survival of the Haitian nationality was doubly significant . Because a clear majority of white Americans regarded Haiti as the archetype of racial disorder and violence , it was ...
... racial difference . In articulating an ideology of black nationalism , emigrationists were confronting racial values and beliefs that were deeply embedded in the nation's culture . And even as they grappled with racial views that held ...
... racial and political consciousness , evoking a range of images and responses within the United States.37 African Americans , of course , regarded the founding and survival of the island republic as tangible proof that blacks were not ...
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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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