(TRAVEL) STEWART T MCCANTS Liberia The Americo African Repub

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(TRAVEL.) STEWART, T. MCCANTS. Liberia: The Americo-African Republic. Being Some Impressions of the Climate, Resources and People, Resulting from Personal Observations and Experiences in West Africa. 107 pages. Small 8vo, modern calf-backed boards; fore-edge of the front free endpaper with archival reinforcement; small water-stain to bottom right corner of the text running through the volume. New York: Edward O. Jenkins, 1886

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first edition, presentation from the author to carrie fortune, wife of the eminent african american author and publisher t. thomas fortune. To Mrs. Carrie Fortune, Yours very truly, T,. McCants Stewar[t]. Feb. 13th, 1886. Thomas McCants Stewart, lawyer, minister, emigrationist and lecturer was born Charleston, South Carolina in 1853. His portrait and biographical sketch appear in William Simmons' encyclopedic biographical dictionary "Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, Rising" (1887). Stewart and his family are the subject of a recent book, "African American Oddysey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963" (University Press of Kansas, 1998).