Lowther, Kevin G.

The African American Odyssey of John Kizell : A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages)

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.

A foreword by Joseph Opala, a noted researcher on the "Gullah Connectionbetween Sierra Leone and coastal South Carolina and Georgia, highlights Kizell's continuing legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.

9781611171334


Kizell, John,-approximately 1760-approximately 1830.
Sierra Leone Company.
African Americans-Colonization-Sierra Leone.
Slave trade-Sierra Leone-History.
African American loyalists-Biography.
Enslaved persons-South Carolina-Biography.
Sierra Leone-History-To 1896.


Electronic books.

DT516.72.K49 L68 201

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