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By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
By Clarke, Erskine
- ISBN
- 9780465002726
- Publisher
- Basic: Perseus
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Starred Review on September 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
John Leighton Wilson (1809–86) traveled from Georgia and South Carolina's low country to West Africa in 1832 as a Presbyterian missionary. In 1834, his bride, Jane Bayard Wilson (1814–85) of Savannah, joined him on a 17-year odyssey that Bancroft Prize winner Clarke (American religious history, emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary; Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic) renders in a sweeping saga of personal challenges and cultural changes. Clarke observes Christian conviction among the Wilsons and other de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
