Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers : Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854

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Written in 1855 from the unusual perspective of a freed slave turned linguist and clergyman, this eventful journal charts the steamboat Pleiad's expedition along the rivers of West Africa. It contains a detailed account of the explorers' interactions with native peoples and their encounters with slavery and tribal conflict.