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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... remained receptive to the idea of emigration to alternative destina- tions . And although the Haitian emigration movement of the 1820s ended in failure , black Americans remained conscious of Haiti's significance as the world's first ...
... remained in Haiti , fearful that the vigilante ac- tivity that had initially driven them from their home parishes would be re- sumed anew if they returned . Such was the depth of those fears that some blacks , disillusioned with ...
... remained an optimist , ever ready to regard his personal efforts as a necessary sacrifice on behalf of a broader political - religious mission . In 1864 , Holly ex- plained his position : Declaring that he was " now a Haitian citizen ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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