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1.

African Americans and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century » Read Now
by Chris Dixon, Jon L. Wakelyn. 254 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

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...
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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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The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865 » Read Now
by P. J. Staudenraus. 323 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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African Americans and U.S. Policy toward Africa, 1850-1924: In Defense of Black Nationality » Read Now
by Elliott P. Skinner. 558 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...as envoys to black as well as nonblack...educational, emigrationist, and religious...millenarian "pan" movements. The object was...whether this black nationality...
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In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Chap. 8 "Ambivalent Identity: Colonization and the Question of Emigration") » Read Now
by James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton. 340 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during...
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Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had fought for America's liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery was abolished in the North, free blacks gained greater opportunities, but still faced a long struggle against limits to their freedom, against discrimination, and against southern slavery. The lives of these men and women are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade to the Civil War. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; Sojourner Truth, former slave and eloquent antislavery and women's rights activist whose own family had been broken by slavery when her son became a wedding present for her owner's daughter; and Prince Whipple, George Washington's aide, easily recognizable in the portrait of Washington crossing the Delaware River. And there are the countless men and women who struggled to lead their daily lives with courage and dignity: Zilpha Elaw, a visionary revivalist who preached before crowds of thousands; David James Peck, the first black to graduate from an American medical school in 1848; Paul Cuffe, a successful seafaring merchant who became an ardent supporter of the black African colonization movement; and Nancy Prince, at eighteen the effective head of a scattered household of four siblings, each boarded in different homes, who at twenty-five was formally presented to the Russian court. In a seamless narrative weaving together all these stories and more, the Hortons describe the complex networks, both formal and informal, that made up free black society, from the black churches, which provided a sense of community and served as a training ground for black leaders and political action, to the countless newspapers which spoke eloquently of their aspirations for blacks and played an active role in the antislavery movement, to the informal networks which allowed far-flung families to maintain contact, and which provided support and aid to needy members of the free black community and to fugitives from the South. Finally, they describe the vital role of the black family, the cornerstone of this variegated and tightly knit community In Hope of Liberty brilliantly illuminates the free black communities of the antebellum North as they struggled to reconcile conflicting cultural identities and to work for social change in an atmosphere of racial injustice. As the black community today still struggles with many of the same problems, this insightful history reminds us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.
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Black Power Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political Thought (Chap. 2 "Black Nationalist Thought in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries") » Read Now
by John T. McCartney. 248 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...American emigrationist sentiment...outcome of the movement is expressed by the black historian...opponents both black and white. Second, the emigration movement at...
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The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (Chap. 3 "The Redemption of Africa") » Read Now
by Ralph E. Luker. 448 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War (Chap. 8 "Black Emigration, 1850-1861 I: Issues and Personalities," Chap. 9 "Black Emigration, 1850-1861 II: Canada, Central America, and Haiti" and Chap. 10 "Black Emigration, 1850-1861 III: Africa") » Read Now
by Philip S. Foner. 540 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Act; 2 black emigration during the 1850s; 3 black participation...antislavery movement after 1831...riot." Eleven black men were sentenced...meetings of the black community...
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Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903 (Chap. 11 "Black Emigration and the New Pacific Empire") » Read Now
by Willard B. Gatewood Jr. 352 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Eleven Black Emigration and the New...Expansion and the Black American...abolitionist movement and the indifference...indomitable emigrationist whose style...back-to-Africa...
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Reconsidering the "Forced" Exodus of 1829: Free Black Emigration from Cincinnati, Ohio to Wilberforce, Canada, in The Journal of African American History » Read Now
by Nikki Taylor. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...acknowledged in the literature on black emigrationist movements. Even in his seminal work on...colony elsewhere. (50) FREE BLACK EMIGRATION PLANS IN CINCINNATI James...of...
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A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Bruce Dorsey. 28 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...whole abolitionist movement (men and women, black and white, feminist...blacks who favored emigration while expressing...courageous adventure of emigration in search of...
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'The Lincoln Colony': Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Janet L. Coryell. 12 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...editor, had linked black emigration with a black nationalist movement. They opposed emigration...for a Black Nationality: Black Emigration and Colonization, 1787-1863...The...
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1829) (Chap. 5 "Colonization Society, and Anti-Slavery Society") » Read Now
by Lydia Maria Child, Carolyn L. Karcher. 212 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"The Appeal was one of the most important early manifestoes of the militant phase of Garrisonian abolitionism. It is also an important event in the history of feminism, because it helped launch women into the public sphere. Carolyn Karcher is the ideal scholar to write the introduction". -- James M. McPherson, Princeton University