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African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (Contributions in American History)

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Author: Chris Dixon
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 2,645,455

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1

ISBN: 0313310637
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.87294073
EAN: 9780313310638
ASIN: 0313310637

Publication Date: March 30, 2000
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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 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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Best Book on the Topic August 22, 2006
Dennis R. Hidalgo (Garden City, NY)
Chris Dixon has written the best scholarly book yet regarding the U.S. "Civil War" emigration to Haiti. It is not only exhaustive, but deeply analytical. His purpose was to demonstrate how this emigration and the ideas that spurred it reveal to us now the different intellectual and social dynamics of African American nationalisms. A book of serious scholarship, the main concern is African American (U.S. blacks) rather than Haiti. Yet, this book is a "must" for all interested in nineteenth century nationalisms, African American, and Haitian History.

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