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1 online resource |
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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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| Contents |
Scipio Vaughan's South Carolina -- Leaving home -- The love of liberty -- Troubled times in Yorubaland -- Reconstructions -- Vaughan's rebellion -- Afterlives |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893.
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| SUBJECT |
Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893
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Vaughan, James Churchwill, 1828-1893 fast |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Nigeria, Southwest -- Biography
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Back to Africa movement.
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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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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469631134 |
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146963113X |
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9781469631141 |
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1469631148 |
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