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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... terms . As Cruse pointed out in 1967 , this proclivity to focus on of- ten exaggerated opposites has often rested in " historical arguments between personalities " such as Douglass and Delany.18 " " Yet , although African American ...
... term appeal of Haitian emigrationism vis - à - vis Afri- can colonization , and casting light on the long - term relationship between black Americans and the island republic of Haiti . Paradoxically , although that relationship was ...
... term its controversial activities would provide a stumbling block for those promot- ing very different emigration schemes . During the 1820s , however , that was not yet the case . In the short term , the widespread opposition to the ...
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Emigrationism Resurgent and | 61 |
Black Emigrationism 18541860 | 87 |
James Redpath and the Haitian Bureau of Emigration | 129 |
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