TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fanning,Sara
TI  - Caribbean crossing: African Americans and the Haitian emigration movement 
T2  - Early American places
SN  - 0814760082
AV  - E185.18 .F36 2014eb
U1  - 305.896/07307294 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Migrations
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Relations with Haitians
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Relations avec les Haïtiens
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Haïti
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Ethnic Studies
KW  - African American Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - International relations
KW  - Race relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Relations
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; Migration to Haiti in the Context of Other Contemporary Migrations --; 2; Haiti's Founding Fathers --; 3; Boyer's Recognition Project --; 4; Marketing of Haiti --; 5; Push and Pull in Haitian Emigration --; 6; Haitian Realities and the Emigrants' Return
N2  - "Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds with other nations. Haiti's first leaders looked especially hard at the United States, which had a sizeable free Black population that included vocal champions of Black emigration and colonization. In the 1820s, President Jean-Pierre Boyer helped facilitate a migration of thousands of Black Americans to Haiti with promises of ample land, rich commercial prospects, and most importantly, a Black state. His ideas struck a chord with both Blacks and whites in America. Journalists and Black community leaders advertised emigration to Haiti as a way for African Americans to resist discrimination and show the world that the Black race could be an equal on the world stage, while antislavery whites sought to support a nation founded by liberated slaves. Black and white businessmen were excited by trade potential, and racist whites viewed 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 as emigrants realized that the Caribbean republic wasn't the Black Eden they'd anticipated. Caribbean Crossing documents 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 the emigrants themselves. Using letters, diary accounts, travelers' reports, newspaper articles, and American, British, and French consulate records, Sara Fanning profiles the emigrants and analyzes the diverse motivations that fueled this unique early moment in both American and Haitian history"--
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