Atlantic Bonds : A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

• Tác giả: Lisa A Lindsay
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1469631127
• ISBN-13: 978-1469631134
• ISBN-13: 978-1469631141
• ISBN-13: 978-1469652153
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 916.7 Geography of and travel in Africa
• Thông tin xuất bản: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (328 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312758
• Chủ đề: 1. Retour en Afrique (Mouvement); 2. African Americans; 3. Back to Africa movement; 4. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical; 5. HISTORY--West--Africa

Tóm tắt

"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