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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFanning, Sara
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCaribbean Crossing :
_bAfrican Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement /
_cSara Fanning.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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490 0 _aEarly American Places ;
_v11
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aShortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realizedthat if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bondswith other nations. Haiti's first leaders looked especially hard at the UnitedStates, which had a sizeable free black population that included vocalchampions of black emigration and colonization. In the 1820s, PresidentJean-Pierre Boyer helped facilitate a migration of thousands of black Americansto Haiti with promises of ample land, rich commercial prospects, and mostimportantly, a black state. His ideas struck a chord with both blacks andwhites in America. Journalists and black community leaders advertised emigrationto Haiti as a way for African Americans to resist discrimination and show theworld that the black race could be an equal on the world stage, whileantislavery whites sought to support a nation founded by liberated slaves.Black and white businessmen were excited by trade potential, and racist whitesviewed Haiti has a way to export the race problem that plagued America.By the end of the decade, black Americans migration to Haiti began to ebb asemigrants realized that the Caribbean republic wasn't the black Eden they'danticipated. Caribbean Crossingdocuments the rise and fall of the campaign for black emigration to Haiti,drawing on a variety of archival sources to share the rich voices of theemigrants themselves. Using letters, diary accounts, travelers' reports,newspaper articles, and American, British, and French consulate records, SaraFanning profiles the emigrants and analyzes the diverse motivations that fueledthis unique early moment in both American and Haitian history.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xMigrations
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xRelations with Haitians
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_zHaiti
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aImmigrants
_zHaiti
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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