02575cam a2200457 i 4500 25329 25329 17754698 MeVbMML 20190502000645.0 130525s2013 nyuab 001 0ceng c 2013021385 9780465002726 (hardcover) 9780465037698 (e-book) 0465002722 (hardcover) 0465037690 (e-book) IEN/DLC eng IEN rda DLC pcc n-us--- f------ f-lb--- f-go--- BV3625.L6 W554 2013 266.51092 23 Clarke, Erskine, 1941- author. 4465 By the rivers of water : a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey / Erskine Clarke. New York : Basic Books, [2013] xxii, 450 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. Part I, Starting places. A slave's world -- Many mansions -- A Black River home -- A place seen from afar. Part II, 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." Part III, 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." Part IV, Homeward journey. An unsought and unexpected appointment -- A patriot's choice -- Civil war -- Home ground -- Distant voices. Wilson, J. Leighton (John Leighton), 1809-1886. 4466 Wilson, Jane Bayard, 1809-1885. 4467 Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Missions Liberia. 4468 Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Missions Gabon. 4469 Missionaries Liberia Biography. 4470 Missionaries Gabon Biography. 4471 Missionaries United States Biography. 4472 Grebo (African people) Missions. 4473 Mpongwe (African people) Missions. 4474 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2018-01-24 29.99 2 1 266.51 CLAR 37366 2018-07-10 2018-06-14 2018-01-24 BOOK