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The African American Odyssey Of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns To Fight The Slave Trade In His African Homeland (non Series) by Schwarze;Sierra Leone Company;Amerika;Kizell, John;Sierra Leone Company.;Lowther, Kevin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The African American Odyssey Of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns To Fight The Slave Trade In His African Homeland (non Series) about?
A compelling biography of a South Carolina slave who returned to fight the slave trade in his African homelandThe 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 returned to his African homeland to help found a settlement for freed slaves in Sierra Leone. He spent decades battling European and African slave traders along the coast and urging his people to stop selling their own into foreign bondage. This in-depth biography—based in part on Kizell's own writings—illuminates the links between South Carolina and West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade's peak decades.Seized in an attack on his uncle's village, Kizell was thrown into the brutal world of chattel slavery at age thirteen and transported to Charleston, South Carolina. When Charleston fell to the British in 1780, Kizell joined them and was with the Loyalist force defeated in the pivotal battle of Kings Mountain. At the war's end, he was evacuated with other American Loyalists
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- Author
- Schwarze;Sierra Leone Company;Amerika;Kizell, John;Sierra Leone Company.;Lowther, Kevin
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781570039607
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
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