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African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

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African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century - Dixon, Chris
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While 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 ...

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African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century 2000, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780313310638

Hardcover