The African American odyssey of John Kizell
Subtitle: a South Carolina slave returns to fight the slave trade in his African homeland
By: Kevin G. Lowther
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781570039607
Subjects: Sierra Leone Company; African American loyalists; Slaves; Slave trade; History; African Americans; Biography; Colonization
Description: Story of John Kizell, who was enslaved as a boy and brought to Charleston, who fought with the British military in the Revolutionary War, and who returned to his African homeland to help found a settlement for freed slaves in Sierra Leone. Kizell was one of the most prominent Africans in the antislavery movement of his time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.