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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... reflected the Haitian leadership's aforementioned desire to im- prove Haiti's agricultural output , by increasing the number of “ agriculturalists " in the country . African American emigrants were explicitly encouraged to settle in ...
... reflected tensions over the black na- tionalist response to the racism of white America . It was of course true that the turn to emigrationism , and the black nationalism with which emigrationism was often associated , reflected white ...
... reflection of , those very same white ra- cial attitudes . For Holly , and a number of other black emigrationists , their Manifest Destiny further reflected American culture in that it couched emigra- tionism in terms of a Christian ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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