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By the rivers of water : a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / Erskine Clarke.

By: Clarke, Erskine, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (489 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780465037698 (e-book).Subject(s): Wilson, J. Leighton (John Leighton), 1809-1886 | Wilson, Jane Bayard, 1809-1885 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Gabon | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Liberia | Grebo (African people) -- Missions | Missionaries -- Gabon -- Biography | Missionaries -- Liberia -- Biography | Missionaries -- United States -- Biography | Mpongwe (African people) -- MissionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 266.51092 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Starting places. A slave's world -- Many mansions -- A Black River home -- A place seen from afar. 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." 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." Homeward journey. An unsought and unexpected appointment -- A patriot's choice -- Civil war -- Home ground -- Distant voices.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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