The African American odyssey of John Kizell : a South Carolina slave returns to fight the slave trade in his African homeland / Kevin G. Lowther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowther, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kizell, John, approximately 1760-approximately 1830.

Kizell, John.

African Americans--Colonization--Sierra Leone.

African Americans.

Enslaved persons.

African American loyalists.

Slave trade.

History.

African Americans--Colonization.

Sierra Leone--History--To 1896.

Sierra Leone.

Slave trade--Sierra Leone--History.

African American loyalists--Biography.

Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Biography.

Sierra Leone Company.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2011]

Summary:

John Kizell was a South Carolinian slave who served as a British loyalist during the American Revolution and subsequently repatriated to his homeland of Sierra Leone with the first British colony in Africa. There he fought the slave trade and African complicity, and facilitated the return of American slaves to countries such as Liberia. Lowther, a journalist and former newspaper editor, views the slave trade, the impact of slave agency on cities such as Charleston, colonialism in Africa, and the Back to Africa movement through the lens of Kizell's remarkable biography. He draws greatly from the rich trove of documentation left by Kizell, a literate, well-traveled, principled and passionate advocate for Africa and Africans under colonial rule. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-291) and index.

ISBN:

9781570039607

1570039607

OCLC:

698332352