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dc.contributor.authorLindsay, Lisa A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T07:43:34Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T07:43:34Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifierONIX_20231019_9798890851703_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76864
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
dc.subject.otherJames Churchwill Vaughan
dc.subject.otherLagos, Nigeria
dc.subject.otherCamden, South Carolina
dc.subject.otherLiberia
dc.subject.otherIjaye War, Nigeria
dc.subject.otherAfrican diaspora
dc.subject.otherAmerican Colonization Society
dc.subject.otherSouthern Baptist missionaries
dc.subject.otherEbenezer Baptist Church, Nigeria
dc.subject.otherreturn to Africa
dc.subject.otherhistorical memory
dc.subject.otherAtlantic world
dc.subject.otherblack Atlantic
dc.subject.othercomparative slavery
dc.subject.othermeaning of freedom
dc.subject.othercomparative racism
dc.subject.othercolonial Nigeria
dc.subject.othercolonial racism
dc.subject.otherReconstruction in South Carolina
dc.subject.otherMartin Robeson Delaney
dc.subject.otherRobert Campbell
dc.subject.otherMarshall Hooper
dc.subject.otherJoseph Harden
dc.subject.otherSamuel Harden
dc.subject.otherMojola Agbebi
dc.subject.otherEdward Wilmot Blyden
dc.subject.otherAbeokuta, Nigeria
dc.subject.otherThomas Jefferson Bowen
dc.subject.otherWilliam Clarke
dc.subject.otherIbadan, Nigeria
dc.subject.otherWilliam David
dc.subject.otherWilliam Colley
dc.subject.otherMoses Strother Cook
dc.subject.otherMoses Ladejo Stone
dc.subject.otherYoruba cultural nationalism
dc.subject.otherYorubaland
dc.subject.otherJewel Lafontant
dc.subject.otherAyo Vaughan-Richards
dc.subject.othercountry marks
dc.subject.otherSamuel Ajayi Crowther
dc.subject.otherKofo Ademola
dc.subject.otherDr
dc.titleAtlantic Bonds
dc.title.alternativeA Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5149/9781469631134_Lindsay
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy165ebb72-a81f-4229-898c-5f49a35f306e
oapen.relation.isFundedBy0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a
oapen.relation.isbn9798890851703
oapen.relation.isbn9781469631127
oapen.relation.isbn9781469652153
oapen.relation.isbn9781469631134
oapen.imprintThe University of North Carolina Press
oapen.pages328
oapen.place.publicationChapel Hill
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