Atlantic Bonds : A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa / Lisa A. Lindsay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017Copyright date: ©[2017]Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
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ISBN:
  • 9781469631141
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Contents:
Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina -- Leaving home -- The love of liberty -- Troubled times in Yorubaland -- Reconstructions -- Vaughan's rebellion -- Afterlives.
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"-- Provided by publisher
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Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina -- Leaving home -- The love of liberty -- Troubled times in Yorubaland -- Reconstructions -- Vaughan's rebellion -- Afterlives.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher

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