02426oam 2200397z- 450 991074694900332120230906203136.09781469631134146963113X(CKB)4970000000119575(BIP)060387938(VLeBooks)9781469631134(Perlego)539927(EXLCZ)99497000000011957520010101d2016 uy |engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAtlantic Bonds A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to AfricaThe University of North Carolina Press1 online resource (328 p.) illH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series9781469652153 1469652153 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.AFRICAN AMERICANSNIGERIABIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY966.9/201092 BLindsay Lisa A477018BOOK9910746949003321Atlantic Bonds2904241UNINA