The Americans are Coming!

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction The Americans Are Coming! 1 Part i Providential Design The Alliance of American Negroes and Black South Africans Chapter 1 American Negroes as Racial Models From “Honorary Whites” to “Black Perils” 13 Chapter 2 The Failed Dream of British Liberation and Christian Regeneration 34 Part II American Apocalypse Prophetic Garveyism and the Dream of American Negro Liberation Chapter 3 The Rise of Marcus Garvey and His Gospel of Garveyism in Southern Africa 63 Chapter 4 Transnational Martyrdom and the Spread of Garveyism in South Africa 82 Chapter 5 “Charlatan or Savior?” Dr. Wellington’s Prophecies and Program of Deliverance 103 Chapter 6 A Dream Deferred The End of the Dream of American Negro Liberation and the Beginnings of the Global Antiapartheid Movement 119 viii w Contents Essay on Sources and Methodology 147 Notes 151 Bibliography 203 Index 225 ...