Late-nineteenth-century Black emigrationism foreshadowed the tradition’s eclipse by new conditions

Evidence

In the late nineteenth century, like their migrating counterparts in South Africa, Brazil, and Cuba who desperately sought for distance from European settlements, American Blacks were convinced anew that their preservation as a people was at stake. The possibilities of that option, however, were already receding. New conditions, new resolves, and new stratagems were overtaking them. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1433

Categorization

• XREF: Signals the decline phase the reader seeks, tying Black emigration to parallel African-diaspora migrations in South Africa, Brazil, Cuba.