(AFRICA.) BESOLOW, THOMAS E. From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America, the Story of an African Prince. Portrait frontispiece. 160 pages. 8vo, original dark brick red cloth stamped in gilt and blind; title in gilt on the upper cover; some very light occasional foxing; small diagonal light stain on the upper corner of the rear cover. Boston, 1891
first edition of a very unusual narrative by the son of an african king. Besolow relates an incident after his return from school in the United States. He had gone to visit a mentor, Mrs. Roberts, the first lady of Liberia, who told him 'The white man's god is all very well, but it is the Black man's God who under stands the black man's needs and wants.' He reiterates all of this in his introduction, in reverse, where he is accused of making excuses for the young country.
