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    Atlantic Bonds (2023)
    University of North Carolina Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: A 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.
    Keywords: History ; American Studies ; African Studies ; Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
    Language: English
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    Atlantic Bonds (2023)
    The University of North Carolina Press | The University of North Carolina Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: A 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.
    Keywords: James Churchwill Vaughan ; Lagos, Nigeria ; Camden, South Carolina ; Liberia ; Ijaye War, Nigeria ; African diaspora ; American Colonization Society ; Southern Baptist missionaries ; Ebenezer Baptist Church, Nigeria ; return to Africa ; historical memory ; Atlantic world ; black Atlantic ; comparative slavery ; meaning of freedom ; comparative racism ; colonial Nigeria ; colonial racism ; Reconstruction in South Carolina ; Martin Robeson Delaney ; Robert Campbell ; Marshall Hooper ; Joseph Harden ; Samuel Harden ; Mojola Agbebi ; Edward Wilmot Blyden ; Abeokuta, Nigeria ; Thomas Jefferson Bowen ; William Clarke ; Ibadan, Nigeria ; William David ; William Colley ; Moses Strother Cook ; Moses Ladejo Stone ; Yoruba cultural nationalism ; Yorubaland ; Jewel Lafontant ; Ayo Vaughan-Richards ; country marks ; Samuel Ajayi Crowther ; Kofo Ademola ; Dr ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
    Language: English
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