Scott, Anna M. Glimpses of Life in Africa. By Mrs. Anna M. Scott, Missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Cape Palmas, West Africa. New York: American Tract Society, c. 1857. [10852]
Worn black cloth, some surface cuts to the cloth, binding is intact. 6 x 4 inches, frontispiece engraving of an African family, one additional plate. 64 pp. with foxing & smudges. Poor. Hardcover.
The book is intended to show the degraded condition of native Africans and the hope that the gospel can bring to them.
Sections on Heathen Houses; African Offerings; African Superstitions; African Occupations; African Amusements; Habits of Heathen African Children.
The last chapter on African Children is written by Rev. Hugh Roy Scott (1823-1878).
"In 1857, Anna M. Scott, an Episcopal missionary in Cape Palmas, West Africa, decided to publish a history of her experiences at the mission station near the Liberian settlements. Scott's Glimpses of Life in Africa, published by the American Tract Society and disseminated among evangelical with a missionary zeal, documented the conversion work she and her husband did among the Grebo people of the eastern border of Liberia...[she] detailed what she viewed as the 'superstitions' of the Grebo people, as well as their domestic arrangements. Scott told stories about many of the Grebo people at the mission who were interested in converting to Christianity and giving up their fetish objects - called 'greegrees.' Scott also documented what she heard new converts say about the redemption offered by the missionaries." - Marie Elizabeth Stango, Vine and Palm Tree: African American Families in Liberia, 1820-1860, 2016 Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan.
