Historical Sketch Of The Missions Of The American Board In Africa Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board in Africa Morning dawns at length in Africa. The night has been long and dark. The opening day has a hopeful outlook and also an aspect of uncertainty. What is to become of the reposeful African under the restless tread of civilization? This greatest of conti nente containing the grandest, and almost the old est, monuments of civilization is the last to be known. For many years little colonies, trading-posts, and slave-marts have fringed its borders; but the vast interior has remained a blank. With no natural ports to attract shipping; with great stretches of malarious coast, fatal to Europeans; with only barbarous tribes inland, and with plenty of unoccupied, more inviting, land in the world, the white man has not been allured hither. Its history, except that of its borders.. Dates from today. The past is unknown, for African natives keep no records. Brave men in recent years have opened this mysterious land to view, and every year is adding new stores to our rapidly accumulating stock of knowledge, new interest in the development of the continent, and fresh forces of heroic and adventurous spirits to carry it forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.