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Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa. Lisa A. Lindsay

Lindsay, Lisa A copyright 2017

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  • Título:
    Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa. Lisa A. Lindsay
  • Títulos relacionados: Serie:H. Eugene and Lilian Youngs Lehman series Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina press 20XX Atlantic bonds
  • Autor: Lindsay, Lisa A
  • Editor: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, copyright 2017
  • Materias: Vaughan, James Churchwill -- (1828-1893);
    Noirs américains -- Biographies -- Nigeria (sud-ouest) -- 19e siècle;
    Noirs américains -- Colonisation -- Afrique -- 19e siècle;
    African Americans -- Biography -- Nigeria, Southwest;
    Back to Africa movement;
    Liberia;
    Nigeria;
    USA
  • Descripción: Existe aussi en version électronique
    Notes bibliogr. p. 241-279. Bibliogr. p. 281-299. Index
  • lds03: Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina Leaving home The love of liberty Troubled times in Yorubaland Reconstructions Vaughan's rebellion Afterlives
  • lds04: "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"
    Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent"
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Fecha de creación: copyright 2017
  • Identificador: 978-1-4696-3112-7
  • Formato: 1 vol. (312 p.) : ill., cartes, tables généalogiques, jaquette ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
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