Format:
Book
Author:
Sitiki, d. 1882.
Title:
The odyssey of an African slave / by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin.
Publisher, Date:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.
Description:
xii, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Sitiki, d. 1882.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.
Freedmen -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.
Methodist Church -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Clergy -- Biography.
Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Biography.
Africa, West -- Biography.
Other Author:
Griffin, Patricia C.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
LCCN:
2009019231
ISBN:
9780813033914 (alk. paper)
0813033918 (alk. paper)
9780813061856 (paperback)
Other Number:
318874498
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
2176431
Call Number:
306.3/62092 B
Course Reserves:
0
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5