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Title By the rivers of water : a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / Erskine Clarke.
Author Clarke, Erskine, 1941- author.
Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  266.51 CLA    Check Shelves
Description xxii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-434) and index.
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.
Subject Wilson, J. Leighton (John Leighton), 1809-1886.
Wilson, Jane Bayard, 1809-1885.
Missionaries -- Liberia -- Biography.
Missionaries -- Gabon -- Biography.
Missionaries -- United States -- Biography.
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Liberia.
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- Gabon.
Grebo (African people) -- Missions.
Mpongwe (African people) -- Missions.
ISBN 0465002722 : $29.99
9780465002726