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Author Sitiki, -1882.

Title The odyssey of an African slave / by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin.

Publication Info. Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, [2009]
©2009

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SITIKI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 SITIKI    Check Shelf
Description xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-202) and index.
Contents The product of a long association -- The narrative -- Slave and master -- Life in Africa -- Life before captivity -- Capture and enslavement -- House slave in a British settlement -- The Middle Passage to Charleston -- "Like a son" -- In the family of Josiah Smith -- Savannah, then north to Connecticut -- Back south and captured again -- Working with the Smith estate -- A slave's view of Spanish St. Augustine -- On becoming a freedman -- As Methodist minister in St. Augustine -- Jack's attitude toward his enslaved status -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Chronology -- Appendix B: Condition of the manuscript -- Appendix C: Analysis of Sitiki's language -- Appendix D: Buckingham Smith's last will and testament -- Appendix E: Jack Smith's obituary.
Subject Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.
Africa, West -- Biography.
Freed persons -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.
Sitiki, -1882.
Methodist Church -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Clergy -- Biography.
Added Author Griffin, Patricia C.
ISBN 9780813033914 alkaline paper
0813033918 alkaline paper
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