By the Rivers of Water
A Nineteeenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

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

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

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

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

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