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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... white Americans , a majority of the antebellum free black population was convinced that white proponents of black coloni- zation sought to reinforce the racial barriers that stood in the way of African American advancement . White ...
... people everywhere meant the island republic figured prominently in white Americans ' fears of slave rebellion . Defenders of slavery , concerned that knowledge of the events in Haiti would embolden American slaves to attempt a similar ...
... white America would finally grant the freedoms that were so cele- brated in its rhetoric . Consequently , with the ... Americans saw their opportunities for advancement in the United States improve , they understood they would have to fight ...
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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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