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Title:

Liberian dreams : back-to-Africa narratives from the 1850s / edited by Wilson Jeremiah Moses.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xxxiv, 234 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Back to Africa movement--Sources.--Sources.
Liberia--Sources.--1849-1944--Sources.
Liberia--Description and travel.

Other Authors:

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The looking-glass : being a true report and narrative of the life, travels, and labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson (1854) / Daniel H. Peterson -- Four months in Liberia : or, African colonization exposed (1855), with an introduction by Dr. Martin R. Delany / William Nesbit -- Four years in Liberia : a sketch of the life of the Rev. Samuel Williams, with remarks on the missions, manners and customs of the natives of western Africa. Together with an answer to Nesbit's book (1857) / Samuel Williams -- Five letters on Liberian colonization (1851-1863), including an original biographical sketch by Augustus Washington by Wilson Jeremiah Moses / Augustus Washington.

ISBN:

9780271017112 (paper : alk. paper)
0271017112 (paper : alk. paper)
9780271017105 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271017104 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

97037112

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)