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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... urban background , and unaccustomed to laboring in the cane fields , a number of the emigrants sought urban employment in Trinidad . Others returned to the United States , with vivid reports of broken promises and mistreatment at the ...
... urban areas . While black leaders had long sought to convince the African American populace that they should move to the coun- tryside , where they would be better able to achieve self - sufficiency , most blacks found better economic ...
... urban areas . Although there were no large communities of African Americans in Canada , as there were in Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh , there were significant groups of blacks in Canadian towns such as Am- herstburg , Windsor , and ...
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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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