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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Clarke, Erskine, 1941- author.
Imprint:	New York : Basic Books, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Wilson, J. Leighton -- (John Leighton), -- 1809-1886. Wilson, Jane Bayard, -- 1809-1885. Wilson, J. Leighton -- (John Leighton), -- 1809-1886. Wilson, Jane Bayard, -- 1809-1885. Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Liberia. Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Gabon. Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Missionaries -- Liberia -- Biography. Missionaries -- Gabon -- Biography. Missionaries -- United States -- Biography. Grebo (African people) -- Missions. Mpongwe (African people) -- Missions. Missionaries. Missions. Gabon. Liberia. United States. Biography.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9351030

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ISBN:	0465037690 (electronic bk.) 9780465037698 (electronic bk.) 9780465002726 (hardcover) 0465002722 (hardcover)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Original 9780465002726 0465002722

Table of Contents:

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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