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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...

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מחבר ראשי: Lindsay, Lisa A. (Author)
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
סדרה:Book collections on Project MUSE.
נושאים:
Vaughan, James Churchwill, > 1828-1893.
Back to Africa movement.
African Americans.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Retour en Afrique (Mouvement)
Noirs americains > Nigeria (Sud-Ouest) > Biographies.
African Americans > Nigeria, Southwest > Biography.
Southwest Nigeria.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
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סיכום:"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"--
תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9781469631141
גישה:Open Access

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