Author: Mary Carol Cloutier
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532697511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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From its very beginning, in June 1842, the Protestant Mission in Gabon included men and women of African descent--African Americans, Americo-Liberians, and West Africans--all teachers and advanced students from the Cape Palmas (Liberia) Mission, who transferred with the mission to its new location on the Gaboon estuary. All came voluntarily and wholeheartedly. They served as teachers, evangelists, preachers, and printers, building the early foundation of Christianity in Gabon. Many eventually returned to their homelands, but others stayed for the duration of their lives, assimilating into the local community. This book celebrates the contribution of persons of African descent who served with the mission from 1834 until 1891, a time of complex and controversial race relations in America, which seeped into mission relations overseas. Private missionary correspondence and journals reveal the interrelationships, roles, and contributions of these individuals, and also the underlying perceptions of nationality, race, and gender. One must grieve the injustices evident in the stories, yet marvel at the giftedness, faith, determination and commitment of those who served, often with no official recognition. I introduce you to Mr. B. V. R. James, Lavinia Sneed, Charity Sneed Menkel, Mary Harding, and others--may their stories inspire you!
Author: Barry Cornish Johnson
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Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: John E. Sunder
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157321
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail). Financial success and silk hats, which strangled the fur trade, later forced him to a less adventuresome life in St. Louis as a gentleman farmer, businessman, and politician. Not only did Sublette help develop the rendezvous system in the fur trade and blaze the first wagon trail through South pass, but also he established what was later Fort Laramie, was a participant in laying the foundation for present Kansas City, and left a large fortune to excite envy and exaggeration, One of the most successful fur merchants of the West, he also helped to break John Jacob Astor's monopoly of the trade.
Author: John M. Curran
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Author: Mary Doreen Wainwright
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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"This book constitutes the first comprehensive record of manuscripts and documents in Western languages, together with a number of African languages, in the British Isles, which have relevance to Africa south of the Sahara.".
Author: James Grant Wilson
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Author: Thomas Townsend Sherman
Publisher: New York : T.A. Wright
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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