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

by Chris Dixon

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313310637
• ISBN13: 9780313310638
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"