By the Rivers of Water A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

Name: By the Rivers of Water A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780465002726

ISBN-10: 0465002722

ISBN-13: 9780465002726

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Authors: Erskine Clarke

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In late 1832, a young missionary couple sailed from the Chesapeake Bay, headed for western Africa. John Leighton Wilson and his wife, Jane, were traveling to the colony of Liberia, where theyand their fellow passengers, mostly liberated slaves and freeborn African Americanshoped to find an alternative to the inequality of the American South. Soon after their arrival, though, conflict erupted between the settlers and their Grebo and Mpongwe neighbors, shattering the Wilsons’ utopian dreams. The true nightmare, however, came when they returned to the United States. Confronting an onrushing war, the Wilsons were forced to make a terrible choice, revealing with tragic finality whereand with…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Maps


Preface



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


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index


Index of Names