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1 online resource. |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. He traveled first to Liberia, then with Southern Baptist missionaries to "Yoruba country." Over the next forty years in today's southwestern Nigeria, Vaughan was taken captive, served as a military sharpshooter, built and re-built a livelihood, led a revolt against white racism, and founded a family of activists"-- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina -- Leaving home -- The love of liberty -- Troubled times in Yorubaland -- Reconstructions -- Vaughan's rebellion -- Afterlives. |
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Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893.
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Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893.
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Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893
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African Americans -- Nigeria, Southwest -- Biography.
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Back to Africa movement.
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Noirs américains -- Nigeria (Sud-Ouest) -- Biographies.
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Retour en Afrique (Mouvement)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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African Americans
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Back to Africa movement
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Southwest Nigeria
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Biography |
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lindsay, Lisa A. Atlantic bonds. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469631127 (DLC) 2016030096 (OCoLC)952943085 |
| ISBN |
9781469631134 (electronic bk.) |
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146963113X (electronic bk.) |
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9781469631141 |
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1469631148 |
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9781469631127 |
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1469631121 |
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9781469652153 |
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1469652153 |
| Standard No. |
40026858862 |
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AU@ 000075330151 |
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AU@ 000075699418 |
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