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Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa
- Title
- Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa / Lisa A. Lindsay.
- Author
- Lindsay, Lisa A.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 17-1029 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-630 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. He traveled first to Liberia, then with Southern Baptist missionaries to "Yoruba country." Over the next forty years in today's southwestern Nigeria, Vaughan was taken captive, served as a military sharpshooter, built and re-built a livelihood, led a revolt against white racism, and founded a family of activists"--
- Series Statement
- H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
- Uniform Title
- H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-299) and index.
- Contents
- Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina -- Leaving home -- The love of liberty -- Troubled times in Yorubaland -- Reconstructions -- Vaughan's rebellion -- Afterlives.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1029
- ISBN
- 9781469631127 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1469631121 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781469631134 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016030096
- 40026858862
- OCLC
- 952943085
- Author
- Lindsay, Lisa A., author.
- Title
- Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa / Lisa A. Lindsay.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman seriesH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-299) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026858862
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1029JFE 19-630