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Atlantic bonds a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa

Title
Atlantic bonds [electronic resource] : 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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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
  • Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893
  • African Americans > Nigeria, Southwest > Biography
  • Back to Africa movement
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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