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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... successful emigration to Haiti . Another emigrant , Daniel Copelain , enthusiastic about conditions in his new home , described his success in pro- ducing coffee and emphasized that emigrants to Haiti were " received with love , and its ...
... success ; not only would the weight of numbers work to the favor of white Americans , but blacks were denied the means of communi- cation essential for the orchestration of a successful revolt . Black leaders , ever mindful of the ...
... success stories . A number of emigrants involved themselves in trading and merchant activities ; Charles Boisdoré ... successes were relatively rare , and the fate of the Louisiana emigrants to Haiti was a precursor to that of the much ...
Contents
Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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