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Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

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A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) got down to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish that he must leave The us to start a new life in Africa. Over the following forty years, Vaughan used to be taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a rebellion against white racism, in any case becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a rich, educated, and politically active circle of relatives. 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 used to be 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, quite than The us, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.

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