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    "pk": 42766,
    "title": "'to transplant in alien soil': Race, Nation, Citizenship, and the Idea of Emigration in the Revolutionary Atlantic",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The emigration of African Americans to Haiti throughout the nineteenth century was influenced by the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Looking beyond this influence as mere legacy, this article proposes that scholars begin to interrogate the relationship that developed between African American Black Nationalists and Haitian allies. The article explores whether the emigration by African Americans to postrevolutionary Haiti during the nineteenth century was a political rejection of the US. Or was it an opportunity to explore the possibilities of democratic citizenship—the right to have rights—that only Haiti had to offer, in the hope of promoting genuine democracy in the United States, as well? Why, in spite of their insistence that they, too, were Americans, did some African Americans accept the invitation by Haitian revolutionaries to board a ship to the island republic? Black emigration, I argue, was not born of racial solidarity. Rather, it was the political consequence of racial exclusion.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Haitian Revolution, African American emigration, Black emigration, black citizenship, black nationalism, exile"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82p0w1pn",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Westenley",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Alcenat",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Fordham University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-01-07T06:18:07Z",
    "date_accepted": "2016-01-07T06:18:07Z",
    "date_published": "2018-12-29T20:21:18Z",
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}