Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670030368 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly In 1890, a 24-year-old African-American and Southern Presbyterian missionary named William Sheppard left New York for the Congo. Kennedy (The Exes), a novelist, is captivated by her charismatic subject charisma evidenced by Sheppard's enduring presence in the oral histories of the Kuba and, like the novelist she is, offers fully developed portraits of others in Sheppard's orbit as well. She speculates with a modern feminist's perspective about the inner life of Sheppard's wife, Lucy, who saw two of her children die in Africa, and she examines the reactions to Sheppard of white missionaries, who were unable to succeed in the native culture as well as he. During the next 20 years, Sheppard explo
"Nothing for us without us" according to Robert. Great book offering a new and fresh perspective on early missionary expedition: a ministry WITH the people. Bravo!. AN OLD FASHIONED ADVENTURE STORY In my younger years I read many a book about exploring Africa and hunting the animals as well as safaris' as written by various authors. Great reading!This book is about a black man named William Henry Sheppard A/K/AThe Black Livingstonefor good reason. Others complain about using conjecture in writing this story, however, the author, Pagan Kennedy, admits there are huge holes missing in the . "With Pagan Kennedy in Darkest Africa" according to A Customer. Pagan Kennedy writes an interesting story about William Henry Sheppard, black Presbyterian pioneer missionary to nineteenth-century Congo Africa. The book is laced with quotations from original sources that give something of the flavor of the man and his times, as well as comments from his colleagues. Often, one wishes for more of the quotations and less reading between and behind the lines b
Pagan Kennedy unfolds Sheppard's life and times with a novelist's narrative skill and penetrates the complexity of her subject-a man who found power in the Congo but not in the Church to which he dedicated his life, who fought the persecution of Africans but never of blacks in his own country. Lapsley died of fever barely a year later, but Sheppard thrived in Africa for three more years before returning to America. Kurtz, as well as readers of fiction set in Africa, like Barbara Kingsolver's bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.. Black and white, rich and poor alike came to hear his true tales of African adventure. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, accompanied by Samuel Lapsley, a white man who had grown up on a plantation and was the son of a prominent Alabama judge. One year later he returned to the Congo, where he witnessed and gathered testimony on the genocide being perpetrated by the Belgian government and the rubber companies, eventually helping to break their hold on the region. Beautifully illustrated with archival photograp