A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa

by Kimberly D Hill

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission--an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813179815
• ISBN13: 9780813179810
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher