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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... received by him in a most friendly manner , " the Haitian president was " so kind as to furnish " him with " all the means necessary for farming . " If that was not sufficient inducement , the same emigrant noted that Boyer had ...
... received the twenty thousand dollar appropriation from the Haitian government , Redpath was able to offer his agents steady employment and a reasonable wage . It is not in- conceivable that black abolitionists would have modified their ...
... received the same attention from historians as Delany or Garnet , he was a significant figure , who served as a bridge between the African American activ- ism of the antebellum period , and black leaders of the twentieth century , such ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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