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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| التنسيق: | الكتروني كتاب الكتروني |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| سلاسل: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Full text available: |
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| الملخص: | "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"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (328 pages). |
| ردمك: | 9781469631141 |
| وصول: | Open Access |