TY  - GEN
T1  - Atlantic Bonds
A1  - Lindsay, Lisa A.
LA  - eng
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-115854
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9781469631141
SN  - 9781469631127
KW  - History
KW  - American Studies
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Sociology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
ER  -