By the rivers of water : a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / Erskine Clarke.
Presents a portrait of an early nineteenth-century missionary couple who worked to overturn slavery in Liberia, where conflicts between settlers and natives forced them to return to a war-stricken U.S. and make a tragic decision.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465002726 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0465002722 (hc.)
- Physical Description: xxii, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations , maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2013.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I, Starting places. A slave's world -- Many mansions -- A Black River home -- A place seen from afar. Part II, Journey to a West African cape. Testing the waters -- Fair hope among the Grebo -- Beneath an African sky -- Sorrows and conflicts -- The bitter cost of freedom -- Exploring strange worlds -- The conversion of William Davis (Mworeh Mah) -- Rose-tinted glasses -- "The liberty of choosing for themselves." Part III, Life among the Mpongwe. Toko and the waterwitch -- A sophisticated, hospitable, and heathen people -- Rainforest lessons -- The French : "the most dishonest and shameless people" -- Home visit -- "He worships with sincere devotion the customs of his ancestors." Part IV, Homeward journey. An unsought and unexpected appointment -- A patriot's choice -- Civil war -- Home ground -- Distant voices. |
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