13692: Krause: RE: 13683: Stiddem: Did the Underground Railroad Lead to Haiti? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Paul Krause <krause@interchange.ubc.ca>

Regarding African-Americans in Haiti in the 19th Century, the best
overview is C. Dixon,  African America and Haiti. Dixon himself did not
go to Haiti to see if there are any descendants of the 3,000 or so
emigrants who settled there from 1861-65. The overwhelming majority of
these died or returned to the mainland. While in Haiti several years ago
when I was doing research on one family who emigrated to the Artibonite
in 1861, I did some digging regarding the question of contemporary
descendants of the emigres. No luck.