TY  - GEN
T1  - Atlantic Bonds
A1  - Lindsay, Lisa A.
LA  - eng
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-121672
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  - 9798890851703
SN  - 9781469631127
SN  - 9781469652153
SN  - 9781469631134
KW  - James Churchwill Vaughan
KW  - Lagos, Nigeria
KW  - Camden, South Carolina
KW  - Liberia
KW  - Ijaye War, Nigeria
KW  - African diaspora
KW  - American Colonization Society
KW  - Southern Baptist missionaries
KW  - Ebenezer Baptist Church, Nigeria
KW  - return to Africa
KW  - historical memory
KW  - Atlantic world
KW  - black Atlantic
KW  - comparative slavery
KW  - meaning of freedom
KW  - comparative racism
KW  - colonial Nigeria
KW  - colonial racism
KW  - Reconstruction in South Carolina
KW  - Martin Robeson Delaney
KW  - Robert Campbell
KW  - Marshall Hooper
KW  - Joseph Harden
KW  - Samuel Harden
KW  - Mojola Agbebi
KW  - Edward Wilmot Blyden
KW  - Abeokuta, Nigeria
KW  - Thomas Jefferson Bowen
KW  - William Clarke
KW  - Ibadan, Nigeria
KW  - William David
KW  - William Colley
KW  - Moses Strother Cook
KW  - Moses Ladejo Stone
KW  - Yoruba cultural nationalism
KW  - Yorubaland
KW  - Jewel Lafontant
KW  - Ayo Vaughan-Richards
KW  - country marks
KW  - Samuel Ajayi Crowther
KW  - Kofo Ademola
KW  - Dr
ER  -