By the Rivers of Water, Erskine Clarke
By the Rivers of Water, Erskine Clarke
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By the Rivers of Water
A Nineteeenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

Author: Erskine Clarke

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Unabridged: 17 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: AudioGO

Published: 10/08/2013

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


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About Erskine Clarke

Erskine Clarke is professor of American religious history at the Columbia Theological Seminary.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosanita on September 10, 2013

Right off the bat, I was made to think while reading this book. The author mentions that when the importation of slaves ended in 1808 in Savannah, the monetary value of current slaves rose. In school, we're never made to think of that type of economic impact of stopping the slave trade. This right h......more

Goodreads review by Jean on April 09, 2014

This is a book about slavery. Erskine Clarke’s engrossing, elegantly written history of the Wilson Odyssey involves much more than the 17 years they spent in malarial stations of Cape Palrnas, on the southeast coast of Liberia and at Boraka, a onetime slave barrack near Libreville in Gabon. It tells......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on October 07, 2013

This book serves as a dazzling exposition into the ubiquitous stains of slavery upon people of good intent from both races. Central to the story are the lives of John Leighton Wilson and Jane Bayard Wilson who together undertook a missionary voyage to Western Africa. This was the land known as Liber......more

Goodreads review by T.S. on September 01, 2013

I was highly intrigued by this book when I first read about it as I have a minor obsession with everything and anything to do with the American Civil War. Admittedly, this is pre-war and gives an insight into the efforts of missionary do-gooders in trying to relocate the African American population......more

Goodreads review by Mellanee on August 17, 2021

Well written book full of history I had previously known very little about.......more