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Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa /

"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 "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindsay, Lisa A. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subjects:
Vaughan, James Churchwill, > 1828-1893.
African Americans > Nigeria, Southwest > Biography.
Back to Africa movement.
Noirs américains > Nigeria (Sud-Ouest) > Biographies.
Retour en Afrique (Mouvement)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
African Americans.
Southwest Nigeria.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina
  • Leaving home
  • The love of liberty
  • Troubled times in Yorubaland
  • Reconstructions
  • Vaughan's rebellion
  • Afterlives.