TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke,Erskine
TI  - By the rivers of water: a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey 
AV  - BV3625.L6 W554 2013eb
U1  - 266.51092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Wilson, J. Leighton
KW  - Wilson, Jane Bayard,
KW  - Presbyterian Church in the U.S
KW  - Missions
KW  - Gabon
KW  - Liberia
KW  - Grebo (African people)
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Mpongwe (African people)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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