Atlantic Bonds A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

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...

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Main Author: Lindsay, Lisa A. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2016
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
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