- Description
- 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Atlantic bonds (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Atlantic bonds (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-299) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2016030096
- OCLC
- ssj0001743898
- Author
Lindsay, Lisa A.
- Title
Atlantic bonds [electronic resource] : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa / Lisa A. Lindsay.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-299) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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