Presbyterian pioneers in Congo / by William H. Sheppard ; introduction by Rev. S.H. Chester, D.D.

Author: Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927
Published: Richmond, Va. : Published by Presbyterian Committee of Publication, [1917]
Richmond, Va. : Richmond Press.
Physical Description: 157 pages : illustrations, portraits, map ; 20 cm
Additional Creators: Chester, S. H. (Samuel Hall), 1851-1940

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Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.

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In 1890, the Southern Presbyterian Church appointed William Sheppard, an Afro-American from Waynesboro, Va., and Samuel N. Lapsley, a white man from Anniston, Ala., as missionary companions to the Belgian Congo. Rev. Lapsley died of a "bilious hematuric fever" on March 26, 1892. This is Sheppard's account of the mission, both before and after Lapsley's death.
Includes index.
Publication date based on information in intro.

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