“Go to our brethren, the Haytians”: Haiti as the African Americans’ Promised Land in the Antebellum Era:
In the first half of the nineteenth century most African Americans rejected the American Colonization Society's schemes for settling Black Americans in Africa, and said so loudly. Bourhis-Mariotti attends instead to the minority who broke with that consensus and argued for an emigration of their own choosing, to territories much nearer at hand.
The article follows the genesis and development of what she calls Haitian propaganda: where the campaign came from, how its arguments changed, and how it reached its height in the 1850s.
The campaign produced results on the ground. Between 1859 and 1862 several thousand free and recently emancipated Black Americans left for Haiti, the outcome toward which decades of argument had been building.
“Go to our brethren, the Haytians”: Haiti as the African Americans’ Promised Land in the Antebellum Era:. (2015). Revue française d’études américaines, N° 142(1), 6-23. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.142.0006
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