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

by Sitiki, d. 1882.

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Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Sitiki, d. 1882.

Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.

Slavery -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.

Enslaved persons -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.

Freed persons -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Biography.

Methodist Church -- Florida -- Saint Augustine -- Clergy -- Biography.

Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Biography.

Africa, West -- Biography.

9780813033914 (alk. paper)

0813033918 (alk. paper)

xii, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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