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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... religious beliefs had taken in the various regions of the New World . There were , to be sure , connections between the black religious cultures of New World societies . But equally telling were the differences , which were particularly ...
... religious freedom- " in fact Hayti really did receive the Gospel , notwithstanding diffi- culties ” —the Haitian leadership ultimately baulked at the prospect of alterna- tive religious values and hierarchies . Religion and politics ...
... religion , with its strong African influences . Holly's inability to appreciate how deeply this so - called voodoo was embedded in Haiti's religious culture might have reflected the fact that he spent little time in the Haitian ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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