African letters
By: by H.M. Turner
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Description and travel; Social life and customs; Missions; African Methodist Episcopal Church. Sierra Leone Conference; African Methodist Episcopal Church. Liberia Conference
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Turner's first trip to Africa in 1893. Before arriving on the African continent, he visits the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and Great Canary Island where he describes in detail the people, culture, and religious life of each. Next, he recounts his welcome at the A.M.E. church in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Finally, he travels to Liberia, and makes plans for continuing missions there.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: African letters / by Bishop H.M. Turner, D.D., LL. D. Nashville : Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1893. 78 p. : port. ; 20 cm. "Published by his consent."

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