Clarke, Erskine,  1941- <br/><br/>
By the rivers of water :  a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / 
Erskine Clarke. 
 - xxii, 450 pages :  illustrations, map ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> 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.  Part I,  Part II,  Part III,  Part IV, 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465002726 (hardcover) 0465002722 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013021385 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wilson, J. Leighton 1809-1886. <br/>Wilson, Jane Bayard, 1809-1885. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Missions--Liberia.<br/>Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Missions--Gabon.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Missionaries--Liberia--Biography.<br/>Missionaries--Gabon--Biography.<br/>Missionaries--United States--Biography.<br/>Grebo (African people)--Missions.<br/>Mpongwe (African people)--Missions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV3625.L6  / W554 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>266.51092