Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-434) and indexes.
Contents:
A slave's world -- Many mansions -- A Black River home -- A place seen from afar -- 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" -- 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" -- An unsought and unexpected appointment -- A patriot's choice -- Civil war -- Home ground -- Distant voices.
Summary:
Presents a portrait of an early nineteenth-century missionary couple who worked to overturn slavery in Liberia, where conflicts between settlers and natives forced them to return to a war-stricken U.S. and make a tragic decision.
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