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Atlantic Bonds
Lisa A. Lindsay
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
William David, Yorubaland, Liberia, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Nigeria, Yoruba cultural nationalism, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Southern Baptist missionaries, William Clarke, colonial Nigeria, Ayo Vaughan-Richards, Jewel Lafontant, Atlantic world, James Churchwill Vaughan, African diaspora, comparative racism, Lagos, Nigeria, colonial racism, American Colonization Society, William Colley, black Atlantic, country marks, Joseph Harden, Marshall Hooper, Ijaye War, Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria, Samuel Harden, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Thomas Jefferson Bowen, Robert Campbell, Martin Robeson Delaney, Camden, South Carolina, Moses Strother Cook, historical memory, return to Africa, meaning of freedom, Moses Ladejo Stone, Dr, comparative slavery, Abeokuta, Nigeria, Mojola Agbebi, Kofo Ademola, Reconstruction in South Carolina