Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa / / Lisa A. Lindsay
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| Autore: |
Lindsay Lisa A.
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| Titolo: |
Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa / / Lisa A. Lindsay
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps |
| Disciplina: | 966.9/201092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Back to Africa movement |
| African Americans - Nigeria, Southwest | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Biographies. |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Atlantic Bonds |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908517-1-0 |
| 1-4696-3114-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910585983803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.