The African American Odyssey of John Kizell : A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland /

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The inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Fleeing his owner, Kizell served with the British military in the Revolutionary War, began a family in the Nova Scotian wilderness, then...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowther, Kevin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kizell, John, > approximately 1760-approximately 1830.
Sierra Leone Company.
Slaves.
Slave trade.
African Americans > Colonization.
African American loyalists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Loyalistes noirs americains > Biographies.
Esclaves > Commerce > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Sierra Leone.
Slaves > Biography.
African American loyalists > Biography.
Slave trade > History.
African Americans > Colonization > Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1896.
Sierra Leone > History > To 1896.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • 1. Chained Together
  • 2. The Uprooting
  • 3. The Overturning
  • 4. Exodus
  • 5. Ransomed Sinners
  • 6. Abolition and Illusion
  • 7. "The land of Black Men"
  • 8. "What a Creature Man is!"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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